♥ Friday, November 14, 2008

Love handles increase death risk: study

A thick waist almost doubles the risk of premature death, a major European study has found, showing there's nothing lovely about love handles (tummy fats).

Importantly, the risk is similar even when body mass index (BMI) fell within normal range, according to the authors of the study of 359,000 people, including 65.4 percent women, appearing in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The research found that excess fat stored around the middle of the body was a major health risk even when people are not considered obese or even overweight by statistical BMI standards.

In fact, each five centimetre increase in waist size increased the risk of death by 17 percent in men and 13 percent in women.

"The most important result of our study is the finding that not just being overweight, but also the distribution of body fat, affects the risk of premature death of each individual," said Tobias Pischon, the lead author of the paper from the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Potsdam.

"If you have a large waist, you probably need to increase the amount of exercise you do every day, avoid excessive alcohol consumption and improve your diet. This could make a huge difference in reducing your risk of an early death."

Extracted from : Msn, News Home.

OMFG. I DON'T WANT TO DIE EARLY.
i'm nowhere near being fat but i have a truck of tummy fats. i think i'll start swimming.

Actually, being fat isn't a sin but i don't want to die early knowing that i might fall into the risk of it cus i have a tummy. this is outrageous. dang.

and this is a part of life.

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