Test,test,test General and Abdominal Adiposity and Risk of Death in Europe

Do you belong to a special minority ?
Do your inherited genes alow you to eat what you want ?
Is a BMI above 25 no problem for you ?
Can you live with zero exercise ?

All im****tant questions....
Now you can test for yourself...
Don't believe anybody.....
Believe your meter !!!
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First thing in the morning :
Get out of bed
Go to the bathroom
Stand on your scale
Dive the number in kg by your length in m twice
Measure your waist
Look up your BMI and waist in the tables in the (free  :) article below
If it's too high increase your exercise, or change it too Low-Boring and 
high intensity

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http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/359/20/2105
General and Abdominal Adiposity and Risk of Death in Europe

ABSTRACT

Background Previous studies have relied predominantly on the body-mass
index 
(BMI, the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in
meters) 
to *****s the association of adiposity with the risk of death, but few
have 
examined whether the distribution of body fat contributes to the
prediction 
of death.

Methods We examined the association of BMI, waist cir***ference, and 
waist-to-hip ratio with the risk of death among 359,387 participants from 
nine countries in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and 
Nutrition (EPIC). We used a Cox regression analysis, with age as the time 
variable, and stratified the models according to study center and age at 
recruitment, with further adjustment for educational level, smoking
status, 
alcohol consumption, physical activity, and height.

Results During a mean follow-up of 9.7 years, 14,723 participants died.
The 
lowest risks of death related to BMI were observed at a BMI of 25.3 for
men 
and 24.3 for women. After adjustment for BMI, waist cir***ference and 
waist-to-hip ratio were strongly associated with the risk of death.
Relative 
risks among men and women in the highest quintile of waist cir***ference 
were 2.05 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.80 to 2.33) and 1.78 (95% CI, 
1.56 to 2.04), respectively, and in the highest quintile of waist-to-hip 
ratio, the relative risks were 1.68 (95% CI, 1.53 to 1.84) and 1.51 (95%
CI, 
1.37 to 1.66), respectively. BMI remained significantly associated with
the 
risk of death in models that included waist cir***ference or waist-to-hip 
ratio (P<0.001).

Conclusions These data suggest that both general adiposity and abdominal 
adiposity are associated with the risk of death and sup****t the use of
waist 
cir***ference or waist-to-hip ratio in addition to BMI in *****sing the
risk 
of death.
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