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Post by caseagainstfaith on Sept 4, 2009 12:32:45 GMT -5
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Post by Jedi Knight on Sept 4, 2009 22:10:38 GMT -5
Hardly news to me. It has been known for a while that it matters where on your body you store fat. Fat around the thighs and hips is less dangerous than fat around the belly and particularly around the internal organs. If you have the "pregnant man" look, you're at high risk for lifestyle diseases.
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Post by Caitshidhe on Sept 4, 2009 22:40:06 GMT -5
Interesting. Most of my fat is around my butt and thighs. I have SOME around my abdomen, but mostly it's thigh fat.
Huh.
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Post by lonelocust on Sept 5, 2009 1:31:13 GMT -5
As Jedi Knight said, this is pretty in line with what has been known for a very long time. Gaining belly weight is correlated to heart disease and any number of other morbidity-related illnesses. Gaining weight in the hips and thighs is correlated to lower instances. While people often cite that men are more likely than women to suffer from heart disease, the real risk is in the weight-gain pattern. Men usually gain belly weight and women usually gain hip/thigh weight. The correlation is actually to that. Women who gain belly weight are as at risk as men who gain belly weight, and men who gain hip/thight weight are as much at reduced risk.
I'd need to see their actual studies with all of the gooey statistics and everything, but the claim that this persists regardless of obesity, smoking, etc. is what I want to investigate. I would presume that the thinnest people who have the thinnest thighs might still be people who WOULD gain belly weight if they got fat, and that might be why those correlations are melting. Or they may be flying loosey-goosey with their statistics.
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Post by Rat Of Steel on Sept 5, 2009 7:20:34 GMT -5
Interesting. Most of my fat is around my butt and thighs. ...and that, my dear Archduchess, is part of what makes you look so lovely. *blissful sigh*
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Post by Caitshidhe on Sept 5, 2009 11:42:12 GMT -5
I'm sure excessive thigh fat isn't healthy, either, but this actually makes me feel a bit better about being fat from the waist down. Scylla versus Kharibdys and all. It makes sense.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Sept 5, 2009 11:53:36 GMT -5
It's probably not appropriate to start singing "I Like Big Butts", is it.
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Post by Rat Of Steel on Sept 5, 2009 12:03:11 GMT -5
It's probably not appropriate to start singing "I Like Big Butts", is it. Well, considering the fact that I already had that song stuck in my head when I made that previous post...it couldn't hurt. ;D "Thirty-six/twenny-fo'/thirty-six? Only if she's five feet tall!" *wiggles his eyebrows at Cait, in time with the Sir Mix-A-Lot record-scratchin'*
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Post by John E on Sept 5, 2009 13:13:35 GMT -5
As Jedi Knight said, this is pretty in line with what has been known for a very long time. Gaining belly weight is correlated to heart disease and any number of other morbidity-related illnesses. Gaining weight in the hips and thighs is correlated to lower instances. While people often cite that men are more likely than women to suffer from heart disease, the real risk is in the weight-gain pattern. Men usually gain belly weight and women usually gain hip/thigh weight. The correlation is actually to that. Women who gain belly weight are as at risk as men who gain belly weight, and men who gain hip/thight weight are as much at reduced risk. I ought to be pretty safe then. My wife and I always joke that I have womanly hips.
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Post by Dan on Sept 5, 2009 13:22:29 GMT -5
I just measured myself: 21". I'm dooomed.
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Post by Caitshidhe on Sept 5, 2009 13:35:38 GMT -5
"Thirty-six/twenny-fo'/thirty-six? Only if she's five feet tall!" *wiggles his eyebrows at Cait, in time with the Sir Mix-A-Lot record-scratchin'*Yeah, thirty-six is a little too optimistic for me. My hips are over 40 inches around.
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Post by Rat Of Steel on Sept 5, 2009 14:02:57 GMT -5
"Thirty-six/twenny-fo'/thirty-six? Only if she's five feet tall!" *wiggles his eyebrows at Cait, in time with the Sir Mix-A-Lot record-scratchin'*Yeah, thirty-six is a little too optimistic for me. My hips are over 40 inches around. *swoooooooon!*I'm thankful that it wasn't my thumb that got broken a month ago, since I'm now tempted to start hitchhiking to Maryland.
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Post by John E on Sept 5, 2009 18:05:49 GMT -5
"Thirty-six/twenny-fo'/thirty-six? Only if she's five feet tall!" *wiggles his eyebrows at Cait, in time with the Sir Mix-A-Lot record-scratchin'*Yeah, thirty-six is a little too optimistic for me. My hips are over 40 inches around. Big deal, so are mine.
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Post by Amaranth on Sept 5, 2009 22:37:11 GMT -5
It's probably not appropriate to start singing "I Like Big Butts", is it. I was thinking "Fat Bottom Girls." AHHHHHH, won't you take me home tonight....?
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Post by Lady Renae on Sept 7, 2009 1:25:41 GMT -5
Wow.. good thing my weight gain is proportional.
Ok, except for the tits. There's no WAY that's proportional.
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