The Diet Diary

Deep belly fat is widely reported to be associated with increased risk of diabetes and heart disease. Consequently, researchers are trying to develop practical ways to identify which high BMI patients carry lots of deep belly fat, and which store there fat directly under their skin (or which are simply muscular.)
A variety of methods […]

So maybe you didn’t care that getting drunk might lead to a heart attack. I bet you care that research confirms it gives you a belly!

Epidemiologists at the
University of Buffalo found that male or female binge drinkers — that is those who drink infrequently but heavily — had more abdominal fat […]

Image:
Imperial College,
London.
Can you believe a man with a BMI of 21.7 can be fat inside? Well, the yellow in this image illustrates fat. Notice this guy has hardly any fat on the outside but tons inside his belly? He’s fat inside.
Doctors now warn that fat surrounding internal organs is likely […]

New research shows that South Asian, North American aboriginal, and Chinese ethnicity may be associated with glucose, blood-pressure, and lipid abnormalities at BMIs much lower than the cut points widely in use. A BMI of 25 may not be normal in certain groups, researchers say.
Source:Heartwire: Shelley Wood
This study, conducted in Canada, included people of Chinese […]

Japanese researchers have reported that breast milk can reduce belly fat. Evidently, lactoferrin, a protein found in abundance in breast milk reduced visceral fat by up to 40% (Visceral fat is the kind deposited on your internal organs and is thought to put people at risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. […]

Infographic: FDA/Renée Gordon
Canadian doctors are being urged to use waist diameter measurements instead of BMI to diagnose obesity. This is because BMI, based on weight and height is a surrogate measurement of obesity, but a waist measurement if a direct measurement of the level of unhealthy fat a person carries.
It turns out that the […]