BrewBooks/FlickrPosted on 08/30/2012 12:37:39 PM PDT by neverdem
Having a normal overall BMI and a beer belly ("abdominal obesity") was found to be more dangerous than having a BMI in the obese range.
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PROBLEM: While the relationship between obesity and cardiovascular health is well understood, less is known about the risks associated with "central obesity," or excessive fat concentrated around the abdomen. A gut, if you will. Are those with fat primarily in this region at higher risk of death due to cardiovascular problems than those who are obese?
METHODOLOGY: A representative sample of 12,785 American adults was culled from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Study, which took place between 1988 and 1994, and matched to National Death Index. The subjects were grouped as normal, overweight, and obese based on their BMI, and then were further grouped as having a normal or high waist-to-hip ratio. In analyzing the risk of death, the researchers adjusted for age, gender, and race and for confounding factors like smoking, hypertension, and diabetes. The data was followed up this year.
RESULTS: Of the 2,562 subjects who have passed away since this data was initially collected, 1,138 deaths were cardiovascular related. The risk of death for people of normal weight with central obesity was 2.08 times higher than for people with both a normal BMI and a normal waist-to-hip ratio. The risk of cardiovascular death, specifically, was 2.75 times higher for the former group. Both total and cardiovascular mortality were also higher in the group with normal BMI and a high waist-to-hip ratio than even in those with BMIs in the obesity range.
CONCLUSION: Having a pot belly, even if you have a normal body mass index, is associated with significantly increased -- even doubled -- mortality. It's even more dangerous...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
The ones that get me are the big butt obese women in the gym who wear super tight yoga pants..I almost feel embarrassed for them..what are they thinking???. I'm glad they are working out but wear sensible clothes until the weight comes off.
That is a really good question, but there may not be a good answer for it, yet. MAST cells are an essential part of the immune system, the complexity of which gets into nosebleed territory very fast.
Some MAST cells, in the sinuses, are responsive to ordinary antihistamines. However, that is the tip of the iceberg, as MAST cells are found throughout the body, in all tissues and organs, and can behave very differently.
Those MAST cell clusters in the fat are likely most responsive just to weight loss. Lose the fat, lose the MAST cells clusters in it.
I think there is a scarcity of mirrors. It’s something the liberals need to look into and probably start a movement about.
That's actually not the sort of thing the article is talking about.
Now THAT IS the sort of thing the article is talking about. I look more like the first one, just not quite that far gone.
That's the beauty of it. Some do, although most don't. I know of one guy, the father of two of my great nieces, who has 5 kids by three women, one of which he was married to. All very round ladies, or girls really at the time. Plus he's now with a somewhat older gal, who fits the profile too. And he had a really young gal that he was going after who also did. Fortunately for her, her father saw him for the scumbag he is, and put the kibosh on that relationship. She was only 19 I think, probably hadn't had a serious, or any, boyfriend before the douche-bag. At least his current lady is old enough to know what she's doing, and to have child from a previous relationship herself.
That's the beauty of it. Some do, although most don't. I know of one guy, the father of two of my great nieces, who has 5 kids by three women, one of which he was married to. All very round ladies, or girls really at the time. Plus he's now with a somewhat older gal, who fits the profile too. And he had a really young gal that he was going after who also did. Fortunately for her, her father saw him for the scumbag he is, and put the kibosh on that relationship. She was only 19 I think, probably hadn't had a serious, or any, boyfriend before the douche-bag. At least his current lady is old enough to know what she's doing, and to have child from a previous relationship herself.
People who do not get enough to eat generally are thin. These ladies were working hard on a (government mandated) limited calorie diet. Prior to that they were on a poverty mandated limited calorie diet.
The ladies you were looking at likely suffered or had suffered from such delightful things as Rickets, Tetany, goiters, anemia, beriber, Pellagra and Scurvy. They also had a higher tendency to miscarry and when they carried to term their children were more likely to be sickly.
I would rather things not change back.
Some men, for whatever reason, are happy to think & believe & follow whatever their women say. And if a woman doesn’t see her “spillage,” the guy doesn’t either.
Interesting. I would never dress to accentuate that aspect. :) I guess I was thinking of men in general. Then again, what human males find attractive is somewhat hardwired and then somewhat culturally programmed. I sometimes forget that.
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