Abdominally Obese At Higher Risk Of Several Illnesses, Australia

News Flash!

Not.

"A new study published in the Medical Journal of Australia has shown that Australians who are abdominally obese (large waist circumference) are at heightened risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease.

The landmark AusDiab study surveyed 11,247 Australian adults aged 25 years or over in 1999 and 2000. In 2004 and 2005, 6537 of these participants returned for a follow-up physical examination.

The study found that men and women who were obese were more than twice as likely to develop diabetes, high blood pressure, abnormal blood lipid (cholesterol) levels and the metabolic syndrome over the next 5 years compared to those with a normal waist circumference...

'Our findings confirm that abdominal obesity confers a considerably heightened risk of type 2 diabetes, the metabolic syndrome, and heart disease,' said Mr Adrian Cameron, an epidemiologist at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne."

OMG!

Who could have possibly guessed that Type 2 diabetes is fat person diabetes?

Or that metabolic syndrome, which by definition is a fat person syndrome, is a fat person syndrome?

Or that there is a link between too-fat and heart disease?

Duh.

Apparently they have money to burn down under to do "landmark" studies that confirm others.

What a big waste for such a big waist.