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Lose pounds for healthier fat (AP/S Senne)
When you’re overweight you have a bigger risk for heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes. The reason, says a new study, is that the fat you have is “sick” fat. The cells that are contained in a big belly do not function the same as the smaller amount of fat found in somebody who is leaner.
Scientists at the Temple University School of Medicine took fat cells out of obese people and normal weight people and observed how the cells went about their daily tasks. They observed that the sick fat cells from overweight folks produced proteins that made people more prone to diabetes and, subsequently, heart disease. The more normal fat cells didn’t make this material. (Study reported in Diabetes, 9/08)
The lesson: keep your weight down. Every pound you put on of excess weight ups the odds that your heart and other organs will be in danger
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