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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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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!")
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