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Beer guts 'ticking time bomb'
Herald Sun (Australia) ^
| 11-15-04
Posted on 11/15/2004 11:29:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
THE typical Australian beer gut was a ticking time bomb for heart attacks and strokes, a leading authority on diabetes and heart disease said today.
Paul Zimmet, director of International Diabetes Institute, told a health symposium in Adelaide that the Aussie beer gut was part of the deadly quartet of heart disease risk factors which also included high blood pressure, high blood sugar levels and high cholesterol. Also known as the metabolic syndrome, Professor Zimmet said it was already a big threat to global health and would become one of Australia's top three public health issues during the next decade.
"Over 2.5 million Australians have the deadly quartet and with the explosive increase in the number of people with diabetes globally, there is the foundation for a cardiovascular disease epidemic of huge proportions," he said.
"The combination of any two of these risk factors, as well as cigarette smoking as an additional one, is a ticking time bomb."
Professor Zimmet was critical of the present focus on individual attempts at weight reduction and exercise.
He called for wider recognition that obesity and diabetes were negative outcomes of globalisation, which had itself resulted in exercise being engineered out of daily life and in the uptake of a less healthy diet.
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: health
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burp
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Holy crap! I had no idea this thing could explode!
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:30:18 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:30:21 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: dead
Sure, It all turns to d*(k at midnight....
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:31:11 AM PST
by
Cogadh na Sith
(--Scots Gaelic: 'War or Peace'--)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:31:31 AM PST
by
loborojo
(What the hell is a "Reagan Democrat"?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:31:35 AM PST
by
2banana
(They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:31:51 AM PST
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Darn! I like my husband's belly. I think it's cute.
(Yes, I know I'm bizarre. Hubby tells me that I am quite frequently.)
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:35:05 AM PST
by
SilentServiceCPOWife
(In the smiling twilight of the new political morning, the unwashed told their betters to shove it.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
BS, beer is nature's perfect food!
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:35:20 AM PST
by
TheSpottedOwl
("In the Kingdom of the Deluded, the Most Outrageous Liar is King".)
To: TheSpottedOwl
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:36:17 AM PST
by
ProudVet77
(Just say NO to blue states.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Professor Zimmet said it was already a big threat to global health"
Global warming lost its' sheen as a crisis for the liberals to use to impose socialism. This new tactic is pretty weak.
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:37:31 AM PST
by
PeterFinn
("Tolerance" means WE have to tolerate THEM, they can hate us all they want.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Professor Zimmet was critical of the present focus on individual attempts at weight reduction and exercise.
He called for wider recognition that obesity and diabetes were negative outcomes of globalisation, which had itself resulted in exercise being engineered out of daily life and in the uptake of a less healthy diet.
Oh Lordy! From all I have read this is indeed a major health hazard. It can't be wished or "accepted" away. But just dig the spin the good doctor puts on it. All the fault of globalization and he denigrated individual attempts at weight reduction. Just how does he think it's done? By govt decree?
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:39:38 AM PST
by
sinanju
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If a beer belly is a ticking time bomb, I've got a MOABB - Mother of all beer bellies!
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:41:40 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(Stay safe in the "sandbox" Greg! THANK YOU TO ALL VETERANS!)
To: dead
LOL! I have a special, explosion-proof vest I wear over mine. I wouldn't want to hurt anyone else.
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:42:01 AM PST
by
TChris
(You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.)
To: SilentServiceCPOWife
Im with you
I love my hubby's belly too.
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:42:21 AM PST
by
suzyq5558
(This space is reserved for the next round of liberal silliness.)
To: PeterFinn
This new tactic is pretty weak. Boy is that an understatment!!LOL
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:43:35 AM PST
by
suzyq5558
(This space is reserved for the next round of liberal silliness.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Then this guy is a tactical nuke:
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:44:56 AM PST
by
Little Pig
(Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
To: SilentServiceCPOWife
LOL!!!!!!!
Since my husband retired from construction he has also begun acquiring one.............I think it's cute, too!!!
I think hubby married me because I am bizarre!!!!!!!
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:46:26 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Thank a Veteran today............and every day)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
LOL, did we really need the research to tell us that fat people have one foot in the grave? If you live out of a pizza box, that angioplasty is right around the corner.
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:46:39 AM PST
by
stacytec
To: suzyq5558
Oh, good. Now there two of us. I feel much better now. I thought I was the only one and my husband thinks I'm nuts. :-)
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:46:53 AM PST
by
SilentServiceCPOWife
(In the smiling twilight of the new political morning, the unwashed told their betters to shove it.)
To: Gabz
Thats not flab....its an attack belly
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:47:44 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(Strategery + Schardenfreude = Stratenschardenfreudery)
To: stacytec
and Time reported that men and women are actually different
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:48:12 AM PST
by
conservativeinferno
(My SUV is the urban squirrel's worst predator.)
To: Little Pig
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:48:13 AM PST
by
dljordan
To: spokeshave
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:48:43 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Thank a Veteran today............and every day)
To: SilentServiceCPOWife
That should have been "Now there ARE two of us."
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:49:30 AM PST
by
SilentServiceCPOWife
(In the smiling twilight of the new political morning, the unwashed told their betters to shove it.)
To: SilentServiceCPOWife; suzyq5558
Makee it 3 of us!!!
I think this one is going to take the same road as the Arab BBQ --- just a gut feeling on my part...........
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:49:41 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Thank a Veteran today............and every day)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Other breaking news, sun sets in west.
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:50:20 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(Science is about "how." Christianity is about "why.")
To: camle
"It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror."
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:50:34 AM PST
by
DanTheAdmin
(A blue man in a red state...)
To: Gabz
I think hubby married me because I am bizarre!!!!!!!You know what? Mine did too. He said that I was different from any other woman that he had ever known and my "weirdness" keeps things interesting.
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:51:36 AM PST
by
SilentServiceCPOWife
(In the smiling twilight of the new political morning, the unwashed told their betters to shove it.)
To: Gabz
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:52:26 AM PST
by
SilentServiceCPOWife
(In the smiling twilight of the new political morning, the unwashed told their betters to shove it.)
To: Little Pig
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:52:33 AM PST
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I don't have a "six pack." I've got a pony keg!
Mark
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:53:06 AM PST
by
MarkL
(Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too!)
To: SilentServiceCPOWife
It must be a guy thing..........I don't think I'm weird or bizarre........
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:55:40 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Thank a Veteran today............and every day)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
More bad news for Teddy
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:55:45 AM PST
by
Free ThinkerNY
((((Kennedy has lots of guts))))
To: Gabz; suzyq5558
Gotta run, ladies. It was nice to find that there are are other "weird" women out there. I don't feel so alone anymore. Maybe we should start a club. ;-)
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:56:27 AM PST
by
SilentServiceCPOWife
(In the smiling twilight of the new political morning, the unwashed told their betters to shove it.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:57:58 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(In a just world, Arafat would have died at the end of a rope.)
To: SilentServiceCPOWife
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:58:45 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Thank a Veteran today............and every day)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Australian beer gut was a ticking time bomb for heart attacks and strokes How to speak Australian:
"Tray Table"
Foster's. Australian for beer.
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posted on
11/15/2004 11:59:23 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(May the wings of Liberty never lose so much as a feather.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
as well as cigarette smoking as an additional one,,, there was a time when this was the main one.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Well, thank God I don't drink Australian beer, so that's not an issue for me.
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posted on
11/15/2004 12:00:25 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(And then I says, "Tell me I'm wrong!" and he says, "I can't, baby, 'cause you're NOT!")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I wouldn't want to be around when Mikey Moore goes off.
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posted on
11/15/2004 12:01:22 PM PST
by
exile
(Exile - Helen Thomas tried to lure me into her Gingerbread House.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It's so nice to know that if we just live the right way that we'll never die.
To: blackie
wider recognition that obesity and diabetes were negative outcomes of globalisation,,, global warming spreads into global fattening. Once all the cigarette factories and fast foods headquarters are relocated in China or the third world, this will solve our problems.
To: SilentServiceCPOWife
Your in good company! my hubbys thinks im nuts too!LOL
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posted on
11/15/2004 12:05:14 PM PST
by
suzyq5558
(This space is reserved for the next round of liberal silliness.)
To: Gabz
I think this one is going to take the same road as the Arab BBQ HMMMMM.... Ive been pretty sick this past week or so and it seems ive missed out on some goodies around here!
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posted on
11/15/2004 12:10:03 PM PST
by
suzyq5558
(This space is reserved for the next round of liberal silliness.)
To: KarlInOhio
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT! LOL LOL
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posted on
11/15/2004 12:10:55 PM PST
by
suzyq5558
(This space is reserved for the next round of liberal silliness.)
To: suzyq5558
Hope you're feeling better.
here's the thread
It's hilarious and still going on!!!
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posted on
11/15/2004 12:16:47 PM PST
by
Gabz
(Thank a Veteran today............and every day)
To: shaggy eel
as well as cigarette smoking as an additional one
,,, there was a time when this was the main one.
Not according to the Framingham heart study. It's the longest running one out there and they've yet to find any direct co relation.
Much research points to lower risks of cancer among smokers, including lung cancer.
But we all knew that, it's on the MSM daily.
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posted on
11/15/2004 12:36:39 PM PST
by
Joined2Justify
(Anti-smoking screens, courtesy of the oil and auto cartel.)
To: Joined2Justify
Huh? I searched through their website ...
http://framingham.com/heart/
... and didn't see any articles that points to lower cancer risks in smokers.
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posted on
11/15/2004 1:44:12 PM PST
by
stacytec
To: Oldeconomybuyer
El Conservador's health bill:
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 305 lb. (down from 325)
Blood pressure: 120/80
Triglycerides and cholesterol levels in blood: Normal
Consummated walker (1 hr a day)
I'm fine so far, but I'm 23, so the belly could come back to bite me in the ass.
It all depends on how you take care of yourself.
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posted on
11/15/2004 1:56:14 PM PST
by
El Conservador
("No blood for oil!"... Then don't drive, you moron!!!)
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