Research indicates that thinner people generally live longer and healthier lives than overweight people. If you look young and healthy you might not need to buy those anti aging vitamins after all!
There is a scientific argument for this that says that too many caleries results in fuller fat cells. These then affect our immunity and leads to further damage in the body. This is not to suggest that we starve ourselves.
The argument goes that for a longer and healthier life, the body requires the right amount of food and the right amount of exercise. Also of course our bodies require the right amount of water.
This is all about balance of course. We need water as our bodies would be badly damaged very quickly without it.
We can manage without eating for a while - although its not good for you, but we cannot manage without water.
There is however a relationship between fat and disease; so its best to reduce the amount of fat in the body, and this will then maintain healthy digestive and other systems that are able to protect themselves against disease.
Clearly too, lots of exercise is good. Better still if its exercise that causes little or no damage to the joints. So swimming is highly recommended for good aerobic exercise for people who may not even be in the best of physical health.
If you can't walk for two miles a day because of that bad leg, you could probably swim for half an hour a day because the resistance of the water is not painful.
Maintaining a good exercise regime is also good for our mental health and for our brains.
We all know that we feel so much better after some exercise. That feeling is because of the endorphins and adrenalin flowing through the body. It is the better breathing that we do when we are taking exercise.
Psychologically too, we generally feel so much better - happier, if we are getting regular exercise.
Its a bit too easy these days to make excuses and not get going with that exercise regime. Much easier of course to spend our Christmas money on expensive creams with great claims for ant!