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Can your pants size predict your cancer risk?
Reuters on Yahoo ^
| 10/6/09
| Michelle Rizzo
Posted on 10/06/2009 7:22:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Your pants size might help gauge your risk of developing certain cancers, regardless of how much you actually weigh, Dutch researchers report.
A large waist and wide hips signal accumulation of so-called "intra-abdominal fat" -- the particularly harmful deep "hidden" fat that surrounds the abdominal organs and is linked to type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.
"It has been hypothesized that clothing size is related to physique, and it was recently reported that clothing size appears to be a strong surrogate for obesity and intra-abdominal fat," Dr. Laura A. E. Hughes, of Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and colleagues note in the journal Epidemiology.
Using information on nearly 2500 men and women enrolled in a large study of diet and cancer, the researchers validated ties between a person's clothing size and waist and hip size and their body mass index - a standard measure used to tell how fat or thin a person is.
Trouser and skirt size correlated well with waist and hip circumference measurements in men and women, the investigators report.
Hughes and colleagues next looked at whether clothing size could predict cancer risk.
With an average follow up period of roughly 13 years, they found that, in women, bigger skirt size predicted greater risk of endometrial cancer, while in men, bigger trouser size predicted greater risk of kidney cancer in men.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: cancer; pants; predict; size
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To: NormsRevenge
My SIL is in BIG trouble....she’s as wide as she is tall!
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posted on
10/06/2009 7:25:55 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(Democrat party has always been the party of slavery, sedition, subversion, socialism and surrender)
To: NormsRevenge
If the adenoma in my neck breaks, and I don’t know about it, I’ll probably have a few months.
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posted on
10/06/2009 7:27:01 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(If I don't have a right to play defense, then I'll go on offense. - FReeper Enterprise)
To: NormsRevenge
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
10/06/2009 7:32:33 PM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When the riders outnumber those doing the pulling, the cart stops moving. My arms ache...yours too?)
To: NormsRevenge
it took the writer of this article about ten paragraphs to say again and again what i learned in the title... it basically says nothing... what horrible reporting...
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posted on
10/06/2009 7:33:26 PM PDT
by
latina4dubya
( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
To: Fester Chugabrew
Dude. That causes eye cancer.
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posted on
10/06/2009 7:33:32 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
To: NormsRevenge
Scary thought is that under Obamacare your waist size will be part of the government data base and now could be used to determine if you will get treated.
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posted on
10/06/2009 7:47:51 PM PDT
by
The Great RJ
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
To: NormsRevenge
Watch Doctor Oz. His program is fantastic.
That belly fat is called Omentum.
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posted on
10/06/2009 7:49:26 PM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(Will America's worst Pre-sent in history be our last?)
To: TribalPrincess2U
>> That belly fat is called Omentum.
Once I hit fifty, my omentum got momentum.
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posted on
10/06/2009 7:53:33 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
To: NormsRevenge
I've worked for 2 decades to develop a powerful set of muscles that enable me to sit for long periods of time without getting tired ... and now they tell me I may at risk
Just damn ...
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posted on
10/06/2009 7:57:52 PM PDT
by
tx_eggman
(Obama has "Czars" because men with more integrity than he has still use the titles "Don" and "Capo")
To: Nervous Tick
Once I hit fifty, my omentum got momentum.
______________________________
Good one.
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posted on
10/06/2009 7:58:38 PM PDT
by
unkus
To: NormsRevenge
My husband who is 6-6 was a 34" when we married but is now a 40". We aren't getting any younger and recently decided to begin having regular medical checkups. His blood pressure was on the high side and so was his blood sugar.
Doctor said both will probably go away if we get him back to a 34" waist.
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posted on
10/06/2009 8:01:40 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: NormsRevenge
I'm posting a smaller size since there isn't enough eye bleach to kill the image ....
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posted on
10/06/2009 8:09:29 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: fso301
Sounds like a string bean kind of guy.
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posted on
10/06/2009 8:10:47 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(ACORN: Absolute Criminal Organization of Reprobate Nuisances)
To: NormsRevenge
Where does that put Letterman’s ‘World WIDE Pants’? /s
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posted on
10/06/2009 8:13:07 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
('They're drinking the juice.'~ Barack H. Obama)
To: LostInBayport
Dude. THAT causes eye cancer, also!
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posted on
10/06/2009 9:02:18 PM PDT
by
Nucluside
(cleaning guns)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Sounds like a string bean kind of guyNot really a string bean. Wirey might be the better term. His undergraduate education was paid for as a DII basketball player. He also was on the track team throwing shot put, discus and javelin.
A very powerful man with the strength of a lineman, the speed of a receiver and the physique of a basketball player, he never quite found his sports niche.
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posted on
10/06/2009 9:14:37 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: NormsRevenge
Do you measure above the roll or below it?
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posted on
10/06/2009 9:26:19 PM PDT
by
underbyte
(TEOTEWAKI)
To: NormsRevenge
It has been hypothesized that clothing size is related to physique Where's that Captain Obvious picture?
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posted on
10/06/2009 10:21:46 PM PDT
by
ArmstedFragg
(hoaxy dopey changey)
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