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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2014.12.009
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
- Canadian Diabetes Association
- Fonds de recherche du Quebec-Sante
- Foundation of the Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Quebec
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Although obesity is generally perceived as causing prejudice to heart health, there is considerable individual metabolic heterogeneity among equally overweight or obese individuals. Such heterogeneity suggests that several factors can modulate health risk at any given body weight. In the present article, the thesis that weight loss and achieving a healthy body weight through caloric restriction might not represent optimal clinical and public health messages to combat the current obesity epidemic is defended. Rather, it is proposed that reducing waist circumference and increasing cardiorespiratory fitness through improving nutritional quality, reducing sedentary behaviours, and increasing participation to physical activity/exercise might be associated with clinical benefits, sometimes even in the absence of weight loss.
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