No longer can we fool ourselves into thinking that we can have a long life and scoff whatever we like, just as long as we exercise a lot.
For scientists have killed that happy delusion with a new study.
The researchers aimed to see if high fitness levels can compensate for the health risks of being obese.
And it turns out, it can’t.
Following 1.3 million Swedish men over the period of 29 years, they looked at the relationship between aerobic fitness in late adolescence and early death.
