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"Beer Bellies" and The Rising Odds of Type 2 Diabetes

  • March 18, 2005

Just as a reminder, the simplest things are oftentimes the best of them all, I was drawn to this study about the link between a man's waist size being a better predictor of his risk for type 2 diabetes than the commonly used body mass index (BMI) tool. That's certainly nothing new, as a study I posted last year confirms. What's intriguing and worth noting here, however, is how this more recent study digs deeper to establish a stronger relationship *by the numbers* between waist size...