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If your legs look like THIS it’s harder to lose weight – Daily Star

Posted: August 8, 2017 at 10:41 am

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If you have thin legs you could bemetabolically unhealthy even if you're a lean person in general.

A persons metabolism is the process that breaks down food and turns it into energy.

When someone has a fast metabolism, they can lose weight easier than someone with a slow metabolism can.

But a new study has revealed that having less fat in the lower half of your body could be an indication of other health problems, even if you have a healthy BMI.

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People with lean legs are three times more likely to have cardiovascular disease compared to other people with a healthy weight.

Researchers hope that these findings will dispel the myth that having a low weight automatically means a person is healthy, when in reality thats not always the case.

The study also found that not all overweight people are metabolically unhealthy depite common assumptions.

During the study, researchers looked at medical information of 981 people with various body shapes and weights.

They found that 18% of the healthy weight participants were actually metabolically unhealthy, which was revealed by them having two or more metabolic health indicators.

This means that something could go wrong with their metabolic process and lead to metabolic syndrome.

Metabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors that raise your risk of heart disease and other health problems like stroke and diabetes.

In the slim participants, heaving a low amount of fat storage in the legs (having thin legs) meant these participants were most at risk of metabolic syndrome.

In general, researchers estimated that around 20% of normal weight people are metabolically unhealthy.

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If your legs look like THIS it's harder to lose weight - Daily Star


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