'Curvy' women likely to live longer

• EricDraven

  4 Jun 05, 23:43

  Manchester Evening News
  Friday, 3rd June 2005
  http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/health/s/161/161202_curvy_women_likely_to_live_longer.html
  
  VOLUPTUOUS women are healthier than their waif-like counterparts, scientific research said today.
  
  The ideal female form for a long life and healthy heart is the hour-glass shape exemplified by actresses Jennifer Lopez and Sophia Loren.
  
  A curvaceous, pear shape means a woman is more likely to have stores of adiponectin, a protein hormone which has anti-inflammatory effects and is associated with reduced risk of heart attacks.
  
  Danish scientists found the ideal measurements for a woman are at least size 14 with hips of 40 inches or more.
  
  Thousands
  
  Berit Heitmann, professor of nutritional epidemiology at the Institute of Preventative Medicine in Copenhagen, said: "Fat on hips is different than fat on the abdomen. If you do not have enough of this fat you may risk heart attacks."
  
  The study looked at thousands of women of different shapes over a period of time to see what health problems they had.
  
  Researchers say those with excess fat around the stomach - the so-called apple shape - are also less healthy than full-figured women.
  
  Fat cells around the stomach are different to fat cells elsewhere in the body and pump out chemicals that can damage the insulin system, raising the risk of diabetes and heart disease.
• elindra

  4 Jun 05, 23:45

  Awww Eric, are you trying to make the majority of 'curvy' women feel better about themselves
  
  I feel better already
• Estee

  4 Jun 05, 23:47

  Originally posted by elindra:

  Awww Eric, are you trying to make the majority of 'curvy' women feel better about themselves
  
  I feel better already

  x2.... ahahahaah
• coolger03

  4 Jun 05, 23:50

  that was what my fren told me on the bus just now...
• EricDraven

  5 Jun 05, 00:02

  Oooo, I like my woman 'curvy' and 'full'!
• the Bear

  5 Jun 05, 02:14

  why aren't you ladies adding to your curves at Muddy's with the wonderful Cheesy Mushroom Melba Toasties?
• Gackt247

  5 Jun 05, 02:31

  Originally posted by EricDraven:

  Oooo, I like my woman 'curvy' and 'full'!

  +2
• binZ

  5 Jun 05, 02:45

  +3!
• the.raven

  5 Jun 05, 03:08

  Originally posted by EricDraven:

  Oooo, I like my woman 'curvy' and 'full'!

  rofl.
• kops21

  5 Jun 05, 06:38

  i prefer women of similiar built as myself....TAF.....
  
  Curvy does have its advantage.
• neuros

  5 Jun 05, 11:45

  I must be tres healthy then!
  
  
• littlestream

  5 Jun 05, 14:24

  Yippee.....I don't have to lose weight!!!!
• Devon

  5 Jun 05, 14:53

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  why aren't you ladies adding to your curves at Muddy's with the wonderful Cheesy Mushroom Melba Toasties?

  uh...i think that yummy stuff adds curves to the wrong places?
• sgboy2004

  5 Jun 05, 15:09

  Originally posted by coolger03:

  that was what my fren told me on the bus just now...

  r u curvy too, darling???
• Rhonda

  5 Jun 05, 17:50

  Yay!! I'm going to live a long and very healthy life!!!
• SnowFlag

  5 Jun 05, 18:00

  Originally posted by Rhonda:

  Yay!! I'm going to live a long and very healthy life!!!

  i need to exercise more to get rid of my curves
  
  hints signs of an uncle
• Ferret

  6 Jun 05, 02:25

  Suddenly I feel better already. Thanks
• the Bear

  6 Jun 05, 02:26

  you look.. uhh... uh... nice
  
  
  
  

  Originally posted by Ferret:

  Suddenly I feel better already. Thanks

• Ferret

  6 Jun 05, 02:29

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  you look.. uhh... uh... nice
  
  
  
  

  Yeah. As in "curvy and full" ? >_<'
  
  Nah. I have no illusions about my figure
• the Bear

  6 Jun 05, 02:35

  i'll just say you look great
  
  attitude makes it so
  
  

  Originally posted by Ferret:

  Yeah. As in "curvy and full" ? >_<'
  
  Nah. I have no illusions about my figure

• Ferret

  6 Jun 05, 02:37

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i'll just say you look great
  
  attitude makes it so
  
  

  Thanks
  
  Sigh. I am hungry. >_<'
  
  Bad time of the night to be hungry.
• the Bear

  6 Jun 05, 02:41

  i was hungry... but not feeling too good and overheating.. so i drank about 1 litre of cold water, and a couple of slices of papaya...
  
  now feeling kinda sick
  
  

  Originally posted by Ferret:

  Thanks
  
  Sigh. I am hungry. >_<'
  
  Bad time of the night to be hungry.

• Ferret

  6 Jun 05, 02:45

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i was hungry... but not feeling too good and overheating.. so i drank about 1 litre of cold water, and a couple of slices of papaya...
  
  now feeling kinda sick
  
  

  hmmm..Thats sounds like a different way of making papaya juice. >_<'
• the Bear

  6 Jun 05, 02:47

  my whole body's aching too.. i think i really am falling ill..
  
  which will piss off a few people at work coz they will have to cover me if i really am ill.. this month, it's my turn to do what everyone hates doing
  
  

  Originally posted by Ferret:

  hmmm..Thats sounds like a different way of making papaya juice. >_<'

• Ferret

  6 Jun 05, 02:48

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  my whole body's aching too.. i think i really am falling ill..
  
  which will piss off a few people at work coz they will have to cover me if i really am ill.. this month, it's my turn to do what everyone hates doing
  
  

  Then you should be in bed. Not here.
  
  Go ! Shoo !