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Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Being physically fit is more important than your ...

with shorter studies showing higher CVD mortality risks for unfit individuals. Notably, achieving CRF levels above the 20th percentile of age-adjusted fitness standards was sufficient to yield ...

Fat but Fit individuals have a 50% reduction in the risk of developing depression compared with their Fat and Unfit peers.8 It is very likely that fitness and fatness counteract in their association ...