Remember when those Harvard Med School experts told us that some body fat–notably booty fat– might actually be good for our health? Forget it. Body fat, it turns out, is not about location, location, location. That's real estate. HealthDay reports on a new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge, in England, that finds that all fat, anywhere, raises the risk of heart disease.The researchers examined data from 58 studies involving more than 222,000 men and women from 17 countries, looking at BMI readings, waist circumference measurements, waist-to-hip ratios, age, gender, smoking history, blood pressure readings, diabetes history and cholesterol measurements. The researchers found that obesity certainly raises the overall risk for heart disease, but that those who carry much of their excess fat in the stomach region do not appear to face a particularly higher risk, compared with those whose fat deposits are distributed differently.
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