The study also found that people with low BMI eat less and 'run hotter.' The majority of obesity research to date has concentrated on examining people with high body mass indexes (BMI), but a Chinese research team is using a different strategy. In a study that was published in the journal Cell Meta
The study also found that people with low BMI eat less and “run hotter.”
150 participants who were “healthy underweight” and 173 people with normal BMIs were recruited by the researchers. They screened out individuals with eating problems, those who claimed to have purposefully restricted their eating, and those who were HIV-positive. Additionally, they disqualified those who had lost weight recently that may have been caused by an illness or who were using any form of medicine.
“Although these very lean people had low levels of activity, their markers of heart health, including cholesterol and blood pressure, were very good,” says first author Sumei Hu, currently at the Beijing Technology and Business University. “This suggests that low body fat may trump physical activity when it comes to downstream consequences.”
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