Posted on 01/13/2010 12:01:49 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People with fat in their thighs and backsides may live longer because the fat traps harmful fatty particles and actively secretes helpful compounds, according to a report published on Tuesday.
Many studies have shown that people who accumulate fat around the abdomen and stomach are more likely to die of heart disease and other causes than bottom-heavy people, but the reasons are not clear.
This may be because several different mechanisms are involved, said Konstantinos Manolopoulos of Britain's University of Oxford.
"It is the protective role of lower body, that is, gluteofemoral fat, that is striking," Manolopoulos wrote in the International journal of Obesity.
"The protective properties of the lower-body fat depot have been confirmed in many studies," he added.
Fat on the bottom and thighs appears to store excess fatty acids, said Manolopoulos, who reviewed published scientific studies for his report.
Pear-shaped people also appear to have lower levels of compounds called inflammatory cytokines -- signaling chemicals involved in the body's response to infection that also can play a role in heart disease and diabetes when they are inappropriately active.
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Now I know I will live FOREVER!!!!
Hmmmmm, so Queen was right after all.
LOL, my wife, who happens to have very muscular thighs as in “power squats thighs” simply HATES that song.
Have to concur with her, it’s truly an obnoxious song.
When I read this article I told my girl friend that she was going to live a very long life. She asked me how I knew and I guess I shouldn’t have told her. Hang on a minute....my nose is bleeding again.....damn.....
Well now I KNOW you have impaired judgment.
First you support the Raiders, the Giants and then you can’t stand one of the best songs ever written?
[pulling your chain]
>Now I know I will live FOREVER!!!!
So will Hillary..
Yeah, it might be not prudent to email this story to your friends and family with the subject line “I have found some good news for you”.
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I knew it was coming, my grandmother was a small woman but man did she have a set of hips on her.
ok, where can I get me some thicker thighs and a better bottom? I seem to be lacking.
The moral of the story is: If you’ve got to carry junk, put it in the trunk.
Ok kind of off topic, but when did white girls get big rounded backsides? I was shopping the other day and this woman walks by - she would have had a really nice figure except for unusually large boobs and a butt that looked like boobs on the back! Seriously... if she had been heavy I would understand it, but she wasn’t - where have these big booties suddenly come from?
My thighs may not make me live longer, but a commentor may live SHORTER.
Just don’t get fat at all!!!!
Great. What I hate about my body the most is what will keep me in it longer. Some sort of poetry there.
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