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Men with short legs more likely to suffer heart attacks
DrMirkin.com ^
| 8.31.05
| Gabe Mirkin, M.D.
Posted on 08/03/2009 8:43:07 PM PDT by libh8er
A study from the University of Bristol in England shows that men with short legs are at increased risk for heart attacks. Men with short legs have higher blood levels of triglycerides, lower blood levels of the good HDL cholesterol that prevents heart attacks and are more likely to store fat in their bellies, signs of not responding adequately to insulin, that causes late-onset diabetes.
The authors feel that something that happened before a man was born caused both his short legs and his insulin resistance. Women who do not get enough to eat during the first three months of their pregnancies give birth to babies who have short legs and develop late-onset diabetes. Starvation in the uterus causes these people to use their food very efficiently after they're born, which makes them fatter and increases their risk for diabetes and heart attacks
TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: diabetes; heart; males
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posted on
08/03/2009 8:43:07 PM PDT
by
libh8er
To: libh8er
Sure. Along with big ear lobes, male pattern baldness and vasectomies.
I've heard 'em all.
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posted on
08/03/2009 8:47:51 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century. I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
To: libh8er
"Not this s*it again!"
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posted on
08/03/2009 8:50:48 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(I am 52 days away from outliving Judy Garland)
To: buccaneer81
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posted on
08/03/2009 8:51:25 PM PDT
by
libh8er
To: buccaneer81
I guess that’s why Japanese men have a longer life span than western men . : )
And rarely die from heart attacks . : )
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posted on
08/03/2009 8:51:50 PM PDT
by
sushiman
To: libh8er
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posted on
08/03/2009 8:52:23 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century. I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
To: libh8er
that rules out the long-legged mack daddy
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posted on
08/03/2009 8:52:27 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Obama's Plan B - Payday Loans)
To: sushiman
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posted on
08/03/2009 8:53:06 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century. I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
To: libh8er
I had one at 44 and one at 51 and I’m rather tall.
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posted on
08/03/2009 8:54:11 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: stylin19a
that rules out the long-legged mack daddyThere's always the cigarettes with him...
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posted on
08/03/2009 8:54:22 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century. I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
To: CaptRon
The article’s BS, that’s why I posted it. According to these “scientists” there is no escape from death. If global warming doesn’t kill you first, short legs will.
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posted on
08/03/2009 9:04:24 PM PDT
by
libh8er
To: libh8er
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posted on
08/03/2009 9:06:50 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
(So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
To: libh8er
Yes, and men born with unusually long fingers tend to become rock star idols before prematurely dying of heroin overdoses, a study has shown ....
Where is my government grant ???
To: libh8er
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posted on
08/03/2009 9:11:38 PM PDT
by
Adams
To: libh8er
Jack (Nightmare Before Christmas) doesn't look so healthy.
To: libh8er
The abstract did not define what constituted “short legs”. Anyone know how short they were talking about?
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posted on
08/03/2009 9:16:19 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Mr_Moonlight
Not to nit-pick, but that rock icon died from choking on his own throw-up.
More rock-star glamorous than choking on a ham sandwich, I would guess.
Well, maybe not.
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posted on
08/03/2009 9:16:29 PM PDT
by
daler
To: SamAdams76
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posted on
08/03/2009 9:16:46 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: libh8er
If this story is true Michael Phelps is a candidate. That dude has short legs.
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posted on
08/03/2009 9:17:09 PM PDT
by
Loud Mime
(Thrasymachus: justice is whatever is in the interest of the stronger party in a given state)
To: libh8er
Obamacare
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posted on
08/03/2009 9:17:36 PM PDT
by
Rokurota
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