Posted on 06/04/2005 5:57:53 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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Curvier women 'will live longer'
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Institute of Preventative Medicine in Copenhagen researchers found those with wider hips also appeared to be protected against heart conditions. Women with a hip measurement smaller than 40 inches, or a size 14 would not have this protection, they said. The researchers say hip fat contains a beneficial natural anti-inflammatory. Narrow hips 'detrimental' They said this anti-inflammatory, called adiponectin, prevents arteries swelling up and becoming blocked.
The hourglass figure has been made famous by women ranging from Marilyn Monroe and Sophia Loren to Kelly Brook and Catherine Zeta Jones today. The Danish researchers examined almost 3,000 men and women aged between 35 and 65 from 1987 to 1988 They measured height, weight and body mass index - calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of your height in metres. They then looked at Danish health registers up until the end of 1998 to look at how many of the men and women had cardiovascular problems, and up to 2001 to see how many had died. Compared to the group of women with the smallest hip circumferences, women with the biggest were found to have an 87% reduction in deaths. They also had an 86% reduced risk of having coronary heart disease and a 46% reduction in the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, according to the researchers. Previous studies have found both men and women with small hips are at an increased risk of developing diabetes, high blood pressure and gall bladder disease. However the study, which has been published in Obesity Research, found a wider hip circumference was not linked with better heart health in men. 'Apple-shape' risk Professor Berit Heitmann, who led the study, said: "It seems that the protection is not a matter of wide hips, it's the detrimental effect of narrow hips with a lack of muscle fat, or bone or a combination of both. She added: "Fat on hips is different than fat on the abdomen. If you do not have enough of this fat you may risk heart attacks." Carrying excess fat around the stomach, being 'apple shaped', is already known to be potentially damaging to health. Fat cells in this part of the body pump out chemicals that can damage the insulin system, raising the risk of diabetes and heart disease. Belinda Linden, of the British Heart Foundation said: "It has been widely reported that if you are apple-shaped, your risk of developing cardiovascular disease is likely to be greater than if you are pear-shaped. "This study provides additional evidence of the association between hip circumference and cardiovascular protection among women." But she added: "It is important to consider both your body weight and shape in tandem. Controlling both by eating less and being more active is the best way to reduce your risk of heart and circulatory disease." |
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There doesn't seem to be much acknowledgement on this thread that not every woman who is slender is that way because she is obsessionally dieting, exercising, or taking cocaine. Some of us lead a healthy lifestyle without having to go crazy about it. Most of my girlfriends and I are country women. We have to walk a lot in the course of our chores, we ride horses, we throw bales of hay around, we dig fence-post holes. These things burn off the calories better than any "spinning" class at a gym. So we eat like our own horses and still end up looking like Gwyneth Paltrow (to whom, I am told, I bear a resemblance). I guess you guys don't like that, but and at least we don't have wads of fat flopping around when we run.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I'm not offended. Chacun a son gout. I've heard that some men like a fit, slender woman.
Ha! I promise that one's not my fault!
Ditto, even down to the same height as me! I like a big man.
"My wife is 5'1" and 100 lbs. I don't view her as James King skinny. She has proportional hips and hiney."
If her hips were 40", and if she wore a size 14, she would be obese.
I'm 5'3", and 105 lbs. without dieting.
I bet your wife is as I am...small-boned.
I, also, have the tendency to be apple-shaped.
So, I guess I'm damned if I do, and damned if I don't. ;o)
"Why do these threads always find you OR
Why am I here?"
LOL!
I KNOW why you are here, WKB. ;o)
cause we are rakes at heart...it's in our Mississippi DNA.
There is also a money component I'm convinced.
Poorer women tend to be fatter.
Less social pressure and other psychological stuff....
Some blame it on junk food. I'mm not convinced.
When I was a kid, poor folks were skinny.
You and Annette are blessed with thin genes obviously.
I have to work at it harder than she.
My mom is an X-Ray too.
Life is not fair.
Don't get me wrong, I am not talking about fat women. I am talking about curvy women, very different. My girlfriend, for example, has a very flat stomach and works out, in good physical condition, but also has relatively wide hips and a thicker than she likes but which I do like bottom.
You are not the norm, you are the exception, especially in our lazy couch potato society. I think we are talking abou the drug addict look.
Beyonce'
Z-J is now another stick of a woman. She has been too long with M-D, who has molded her into a clone of R-Z.
She is a healthy woman. Why do most men watch the spanish channel without knowing a word of spanish????????
To see the curvy chicks. Some of the most perfectly shaped woman are on the spanish channel. There are no eating disorders there!
I had one fellow say to me, after I told him I was going to try the Atkin's diet to "relieve" some of the hip-cargo I had developed over a few years.
After he said, "no, don't do that..." he had only one other word...
"recoil!"
Roger that. I have no need for walking toothpicks. They are not attractive at all to me. That anorexic look is well, anorexic and unhealthy.
I have a wife to prove where I stand. 5' 4", 138lbs. Thick and not an ounce of fat on her.
Oh, yeah.
Those pictures make me want to cry.....how sad to have a body ruined, RUINT... like that.
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Fat on hips is different than fat on the abdomen 