"Carrying excess weight around the middle can impair lung function, adding to a long list of health problems associated with belly fat, French researchers said on Friday.So if you are fat and have some desire to breathe better, lose the pounds the right way instead of following the experts whose advice has failed, continues to fail and will fail well into the foreseeable future. - as in forever.
Abdominal obesity is already linked with diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease as part of a cluster of health problems known collectively as metabolic syndrome.
Researchers have now shown that a large waist measurement is strongly associated with decreased lung function, regardless of other complicating factors that affect the lungs such as overall obesity and smoking."
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Study finds belly fat makes breathing harder
Really?
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