I love my hubby's belly too.
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.
Holy crap! I had no idea this thing could explode!
BTTT
Sure, It all turns to d*(k at midnight....
mmmmmmmm BEEEER
But Beer is LOW FAT...
the horror! the horror!
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.)
BS, beer is nature's perfect food!
You can only rent beer.
"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.
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?
If a beer belly is a ticking time bomb, I've got a MOABB - Mother of all beer bellies!
LOL! I have a special, explosion-proof vest I wear over mine. I wouldn't want to hurt anyone else.
I love my hubby's belly too.
Boy is that an understatment!!LOL
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!!!!!!!
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.
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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