Fat Loss Diet Blog | Matt Lisk » Body Mass Index http://mattlisk.com Fat Loss Diet Blog Fri, 11 May 2012 17:00:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 You Are Less of a Man if You Have a Lot of Belly Fat http://mattlisk.com/57/you-are-less-of-a-man-if-you-have-a-lot-of-belly-fat/ http://mattlisk.com/57/you-are-less-of-a-man-if-you-have-a-lot-of-belly-fat/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:11:09 +0000 matt http://mattlisk.com/?p=57 Continue reading →]]> A fat belly certainly makes you a big man – and also less of a man, according to a study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.  Researchers studied over 580 men for almost 20 years, and found that a 4-point increase in body mass index – a (somewhat-flawed) calculation used to determine obesity – accelerates your natural decline in testosterone by 10 years!  This corresponds to a gain of 30 pounds for a man who is 5 feet 10 inches tall.  It’s not just the testosterone levels that suffer – the deficiency also increases your risks of diabetes, bone fractures and Alzheimer’s disease.

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From Men’s Health:

Your being in shape could be worth a cool $60,000. According to an Ohio State University analysis, obese people have a lower net worth than slimmer counterparts. OSU researcher Jay L. Zagorsky found that for whites at least, there was a very strong correlation between total net worth and body mass index, or BMI.

In one 2000 sampling, whites with a BMI of 24 – within “normal” range – were worth $100,000, while those with a BMI of 42 – obese – were worth only $40,000. (For unknown reasons, the health and net wealth link did not seem to apply to African-Americans). And these figures don’t take into account the whopping cost of assorted medical events associated with being sedentary: $50,000 and up for heart bypass surgery; an annual, average, per patient cost of $10,000 associated with Type 2 diabetes (as a result of heart disease, eye damage, stroke, kidney disease, and amputation).

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