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Some while ago now we wrote a post here on this blog about the risks of having a 35 inch waistline, or more for men

and women, women can get away with having a smaller waist as far as health risks are concerned, and men need to be concerned if this their waistline is over 35 inches.

Normally being overweight is something that you associate with belly fat or having a larger abdomen, but recently some alarming research Read the rest of this entry »

I’m sure most of us already know that a big waist = bad, but this study caught my eye due to;

a) The sheer size of it (300,000 + participants)
and
b) That these findings were independent of body mass index (BMI). Here are some more details of the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The risk of premature death was approximately double for subjects with a larger Read the rest of this entry »