chubby legs, healthy heart?

"women complain about less-than-lithe legs, but new research suggests that leg fat may actually protect against heart disease. this might explain why ur body fights so hard to hold on to it, no matter how much u sweat it out on the treadmill. "in the past, we thought all fat was bad." says rachael van pelt of the university of colorado at denver. but where u store that fat makes all the difference.

abdominal fat is linked to heart disease. but what about leg fat? van pelt measured fat levels of 95 women and looked at risk factors for heart disease, including insulin & triglycerides (a sometimes dangerous fat). women with excess leg fat, regardless of belly fat, had fewer triglycerides in the blood, which may mean they are at lower risk for heart disease. how does it work? let fat may grab triglycerides from the blood and store them. with more research scientists may be able to create drugs that help stomach fat act like leg fat." -- source: reader's digest, dec 2005

now i have a reason to love my betis-buluh-betung.. heheheh






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