Saturday, November 15, 2008

Fascinating: Crunch Time

Ok, that's it...I'm cutting back on my french fry consumption and getting started on those long delayed sit-ups, arrgh!

From NPR...
Researchers in Germany have found that fat accumulated in the abdomen can be far more dangerous to your health than fat on other parts of the body. Their study, which appears in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, found that excess weight around the abdomen nearly doubled a person's risk of death from a variety of diseases, including cancer, stroke and heart disease.

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