Physical Fitness or Obesity: Which Better Determines Health Outcomes?
MEDIA ADVISORY & PHOTO OPPORTUNITY WHAT: Steven N. Blair, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics will discuss the growing rates of obesity in the United States and abroad. While these problems have received enormous attention from the public, clinicians, and public health professionals, much of the research on obesity and health outcomes is flawed by failure to adequately take physical activity habits into account. Blair will present fresh data in which cardiorespiratory fitness, an objective laboratory measure of recent physical activity habits, is used as a possible confounder of the obesity-health relationship. Blair shows that, in fact, obese individuals who are at least moderately fit have death rates about one half those observed in normal weight individuals who are unfit. The Positive Health Lecture Series is organized by Martin Seligman, University of Pennsylvania professor and founder of the positive psychology movement and Penn’s Positive Psychology Center. The series, f
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