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Ladies, Your Body Shape Could Be Putting You At Risk For Heart Attacks

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Ladies, Your Body Shape Could Be Putting You At Risk For Heart Attacks

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Although we have a very different outlook on obesity than we did 10 years ago, it is still a heavy issue today. We now have plus size sections, extra wide shoes, and big & tall fashions, but what exactly did it fix? We’ve even made mantra’s that “big is beautiful”, “she’s voluptuous”, “thick”, “PHAT” (pretty, hot, and tempting). However, in a recent study, it showed that excess belly weight, and specifically a so-called “apple shape”, raises a woman’s risk for heart attack even more than overall being obese.

While obesity raises heart attack risk in both sexes, women with bigger waists and waist-to-hip ratios have greater odds of a heart attack than men who have a similar apple-shaped body, a large British…

Please read original article Ladies, Your Body Shape Could Be Putting You At Risk For Heart Attacks posted on Healthy Black Girls on 21 March 2018 | 9:43 pm —

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