Wider Hips Said to Keep Diabetes at Bay

Tue, 24 Jan 2012
Having wider hips can lower the likelihood of premature death by providing protection against metabolic disorders like type 2 diabetes.

Adrian Cameron from Deakin University, is the co-author of a study into this area and states that, "We knew that higher hip circumference was protective against metabolic diseases such as diabetes as well as death."

They were not aware that taking waist and hip circumference into account separately would disclose such a strong link between obesity and mortality.

This means that an individual with large hips and a small waist is at the lowest end of the risk scale and those with small hips and a large waist are at the highest risk of becoming diabetic .

This research is also a forerunner as it is the first study to relate obesity to mortality in a South Asian population, by exploring the relationship between waist and hip circumference in a twenty year study of around 8,000 Mauritians.

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