About advantage of excess weight.

ABOUT ADVANTAGE OF EXCESS WEIGHT.

It is difficult to challenge common truths.
You remember in "The fifth element" - wind blows, fire burns, the rain goes … Also the medicine applies for the indisputable truth sometimes. One of them – "surplus of weight shortens life".
But whether so it actually?


All speak about it, but and it seems that keep back. And if to try to dig more deeply, it is possible to find a lot of unexpected. It appears, excess weight in certain limits it is not so harmful as it is considered to be. Besides, sometimes it is useful.
Of course it is not about obviously expressed obesity. And about several extra kilos, often imaginary with which millions of women wage war to the death.

I AM NOT FAT, I AM MODERATELY WELL-FED.
The adequate person who is most belonging to the weight – the hero of the fairy tale. Do you remember? Moderately well-fed man in the blossoming of forces. Active, mobile, cheeful and cheerful Carlson. Such person has every chance to live quietly and happily, without bunch of the most different diseases. So scientists to whose opinion I advise consider to listen.
Here and WHO claims that even 71.9 kg, "terrible" by the standards of fashionable diets, for the girl of 170 cm in height – at all not an occasion with shouts terrifying to throw out products and to begin to starve itself. Besides, for himself it is possible to be glad. At least because fat is necessary to an organism as the mechanism of support of some bodies, for example kidneys. They lie on a fatty pillow and if that is exhausted – begin "to walk" up-down. In medicine this state and is called – the "wandering" kidney. And the female breast substantially consists of fatty tissue. At weight loss it has an unpleasant tendency "to be blown off". Besides, fat is extremely necessary for synthesis of female sex hormones, and for stabilization of a menstrual cycle.
"SAFETY CUSHION" FOR HEART.
The additional weight which is slightly exceeding the upper bound of norm can become it. The small "strategic stock" in the form of fat, and is even better in the form of the so-called "lean weight" - pledge of healthy life and protection against many misfortunes. Data on this phenomenon began to be published in scientifically medical magazines long ago.
The curve of communication of mortality with body mass index has U-shaped character. Both the surplus of weight, and its lack of result of thoughtless weight loss equally badly affect health. But low weight is more harmful, than high.
In 1987 the group of the Finnish scientists established that the lowest risk of death from a heart attack aged from 30 up to 49 years at people with the body mass index (BMI) more than 28.5 in comparison with the others "high categories". That is even if at moderately well-fed the heart attack also happens to a thicket, leads to death less than at people with normal or the lowered weight. And remember heart troubles first of all when speak about excess weight.
More than paradoxical conclusions confirmed 20 years later observations of the German and Swiss scientists; patients with an excess weight had a heart attack much better, than people with a normal weight. What it is connected with? Perhaps with the fact that at stout persons the endogenous kannabinoidny system is more active. Under this difficult name disappears own "analgetics" an organism helping to endure painful shock and other troubles.

STRATEGIC STOCK.
Small "overweight" can be useful at solid age. The Japanese scientists investigated group of pensioners of 80 years and came to a conclusion that even at such age the lack of weight is much worse, than small surplus. At people with a normal excess weight essential differences in mortality from diseases of a cardiovascular system, pneumonia and different types of cancer were not revealed. And here "thin persons" on average died from the enumerable reasons 4 times more often, and only from cancer – is 18 times more often.
This regularity was noticed not only by the Japanese physicians. In researches in the USA it was also established that the lowest death rate among elderly Americans with BMI 29.6. And on norms of WHO this weight is definitely superfluous.

TO GROW THIN OR BE ILL?
Researchers meet in one: even if by eye it is visible what did not prevent to dump the three of extra kilos to you, but the health at the same time does not cause any complaints, it is not necessary to follow the tastes of far-fetched standards, and it is better to consult to experts.
Violence over itself can pour out in psychological troubles. Chronically lowered mood is guaranteed to "martyrs of diets". But the main thing – loses weight through "I cannot" is capable to cause failure in work of bodies and the systems of an organism. Decrease in body weight causes easing of immunity. And it means not only increase in risk "to catch" an infection, but also danger of development of some forms of cancer. Kind of paradoxically it sounded, but also the surplus of weight, and its shortcoming are equally significant in sense of development of new growths. For example cancer of kidneys – if a long time to keep to a diet with the increased protein content. Think of it!!!
Where and when there is a failure, it is difficult to tell, but it can undoubtedly occur.

CONCLUSION "HEALTH".
Several extra kilos can become our defenders from diseases.
Only one arises: the moderation and tolerance will not damage also in the relation to a body weight. Eat it is balanced, regularly, do not forget about physical activity, you treat yourself with a fair share of irony and optimism – and then you can safely throw out scales. To spite of all diets.

P.S. WHO set limits of normal weight on the body mass index of BMI: from 18.5 to 25.
This indicator is recognized as the basic around the world.