Yet Another Reason To Loose Weight: Less Migraines
Got a spare tire — (and I don’t mean the kind you can find in the boot of your car?) If you do, and you are between 20 - 55, chances are that you also have migraines, no matter if you are a man or a woman. This is the conclusion of a study of 22,211 human guinea pigs done by prestigious Drexel Hill University’s College of Medicine.
How Fat Is Too Fat?
The particular kind of fat that the Drexel researchers looked at was belly fat and not general fat or even how obese a person was. They measured belly fat by measuring the circumference of a person’s waists.
However, obesity does give you serious health problems such as heart disease, diabetes and problems breathing. So, you stil need to loose it if you are overweight or obese. (Wait … that sentence didn’t come out right … oh, never mind …)
Women migraineurs with abdominal fat were 37% more likely to get more migraines than women migraineurs without abdominal fat. In men, the odds were 20%.
Must Love Migraineurs
If you already have migraines, and then grow a spare tire, then you will be likely to have a greater frequency of migraines. If you don’t have migrains and get a spare tire, then — you get a spare tire and some sniggers behind your back. If only the cause of migraines was that easy…
The study also noted that it was aware that women and men’s body fat tends to store in different areas of the body. They also noted that women are still three times more likely than men to suffer from migraines.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
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