Big bellies lead to cardiovascular disease

Beware the new fat crusaders are on the prowl- QJ

Big bellies lead to cardiovascular disease: "According to the International Day for the Evaluation of Abdominal Obesity (IDEA) Study, abdominal obesity is now pandemic, with Canadians weighing in among the heaviest in the world. The results were released in Atlanta Tuesday.
More than 170,000 people in 63 countries including 135 family physicians and 3,000 patients in Canada participated in the study, the largest of its kind. Around the world, 6,000 family doctors tape-measured their patients' stomachs.
The study reported a worldwide prevalence of known cardiovascular disease as 16 per cent for men, ranging from 10 per cent in Latin America to 26 per cent in Eastern Europe. For women, the numbers were lower at 12.5 per cent, ranging from seven per cent in North America to 23 per cent in Eastern Europe.
Doctors found a clear relationship between waist size and heart disease"