Women With Big Thighs & Bottoms Have Less Disease Risk
October 6th, 2010 - 2:05 am ICT by Angela Kaye MasonAccording to recent studies, women who have larger thighs and bottoms are actually healthier and at less risk for disease. Those women who have too much fat on the bellies, have a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Those who have more fat deposited on their thigh and bottom will have less risk.
Micheal Jensen, from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota, and colleagues of his over-fed a group of both men and women for a period of eight weeks to see how the fat cells would grow in their bodies. The findings were posted in the ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.’
The participants were found to have added about 5.5 pounds of fat on the upper body and 3.3 on the lower. The fat cells around the stomach and heart grew in size, not in number. They produced more fat synthesising proteins.
But the fat cells on the thighs increased in number, but did not get any bigger.This challenges the idea that the number of fat cells of the adult body remains the same. It also supports the notion that the increased ability to produce more fat cells in the lower body will create protection for the upper body, thus preventing some disease.
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