As the weight loss industry grew, so did our waistlines.
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Most of this does not bode well for our waistlines.
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It's not only hitting waistlines; it's hitting their collective wallet.
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In some ways, our waistlines are the true winner here.
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Blame waistlines This one probably isn't fair, but it bears mentioning.
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As a result, our waistlines felt slimmer, and our wallets fatter.
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Some people say it lifts mental fog while slimming their waistlines.
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But in many places, growing economies have led to growing waistlines.
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Hair has gotten grayer, things are drooping more, waistlines are expanding.
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And these are the real culprits in the expansion of our waistlines.
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One is that it's a result of the overall expansion of Americans' waistlines.
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Our bulging waistlines are evidence that we know perfectly well how to eat.
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Pork, it seems, is as bad for budgets as it is for waistlines.
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But the effects of physical activity on waistlines are not straightforward and coherent.
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"We see ... slim waistlines, we see a lot of femininity," he told Reuters.
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Growing appetites for processed food and more sedentary lives are leading to bigger waistlines.
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Few friendships, or waistlines, can emerge unscathed from Tijuana's relentless onslaught of delectable street food.
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They are thrilled the pub is watching their waistlines by keeping their portion sizes in check.
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Studies suggest short bursts of activity like these can have a big impact on people's waistlines.
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The progress of receding hairlines, expanding waistlines, and graying temples can all be tracked over time.
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Over the next two decades, the company expanded and contracted like some of its clients' waistlines.
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In terms of trends, all indicators suggest trousers are about to widen and waistlines will migrate north.
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There was structured tailoring hidden under high romance, peekaboo waistlines and slices of skin beneath the lacings.
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As American waistlines continue to expand, a lesser-known obesity-related disease is quickly becoming more common.
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Sugar, no matter if it's added or natural, is not great for our waistlines or our hearts.
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It's no industry secret that models are constantly scrutinized for their looks — notably, their waistlines, skin, and hair.
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Surprising or not, the foods that the government makes easy on our wallets are hard on our waistlines.
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Our widening waistlines are not just a public health issue, but also pose a potential national security emergency.
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More often than not, we end up right where we started, but with thinner wallets and thicker waistlines.
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Ballooning waistlines are often blamed on the shift towards modern diets, urbanisation and falling levels of physical activity.
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We may love the taste of fried foods, but our waistlines (and our hearts) aren't so crazy about them.
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As people look down at their waistlines after the holiday season, there is a strong desire to get active.
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The judgment that use to be reserved only for women's plates and waistlines now extends to their whole family.
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That means it could be the Mediterranean diet as a whole, not just pasta consumption, which is trimming waistlines.
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As the world changed and waistlines grew, Americans turned away from supersize culture and started choosing different kinds of foods.
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The shift follows the trend of consumers wanting to eat clean or be healthier rather than focus on their waistlines.
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We blame willpower failings for weight gain, even though it's genetics and our calorie-laden environments conspiring against out waistlines.
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Now, it turns out the hard times may also have long-term effects on their health, and their waistlines in particular.
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These are women with successful careers, adorable children, spotless countertops and waistlines that belie the presence of a once-gestating uterus.
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The effectiveness of a tax in actually slimming our ever-expanding waistlines is very much still up for debate, he says.
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Fortunately, the festival will expand more than waistlines: Proceeds benefit the Jimmy Fund, a cancer charity, and the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.
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The three resulting styles have a structured, vintage feel that's softened by feminine details: high waistlines and delicate brass-and-lacquer buttons.
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Like Hollywood, the male modeling industry has been filled pretty exclusively with six-pack abs and 30-inch waistlines since the 1950s.
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The growing popularity of fried chicken and pizza in parts of Africa underscores how fast food is changing habits and expanding waistlines.
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A group called Flyers Rights had sued the FAA to do something about shrinking seats, made to feel still smaller by expanding waistlines.
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A quarter of Beijing's adults are considered obese; more than a fifth of adults in Tianjin, a nearby port city, similarly have worrying waistlines.
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Instead, music, the blood of our youth, has somehow been replaced by mortgages, credit cards, spouses, children, divorces, alimony, expanding waistlines and diminished dreams.
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Worried the U.S. military may be losing its battle on bulging waistlines, the Pentagon is reviewing its current physical fitness and body fat program.
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French cool-girls — in perfectly-tailored tops and with Rapunzel-like waves down to their waistlines — are clearly jumping on the grow-out train.
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She is held up by producers and the entertainment news media as refreshing, long overdue evidence that Hollywood's insistence on microscopic waistlines is ending.
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And while waistlines of two-pieces may rise and fall, Ms. Eggert thinks the "Baywatch" suit's particular cut will never go out of style.
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And while waistlines of two-pieces may rise and fall, Ms. Eggert thinks the "Baywatch" suit's particular cut will never go out of style.
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Yet, we often focus on the need for more exercise as the way to shrink our waistlines, and the study suggests that focus is misguided.
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Whether we realize it or not, we all participate in this looks-obsessed compliment culture — and it goes beyond giving shout-outs to shrinking waistlines.
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If people could come to view inhaling cheesecake or Big Macs in the same way, Americans' waistlines would shrink along with their health-care bills.
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Minds are not the only thing expanding at elementary schools across the UK. It would appear that waistlines are also being stretched within the education system.
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There were cinching of the waistlines in flared trousers, checked suiting with shimmering, classic tailoring with a side of bedazzle (that's fashion speech for Swarovski crystals).
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Though all the contestants lost dozens of pounds through diet and exercise at the end of the show, six years later, their waistlines had largely rebounded.
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More damning, it even found some evidence that skipping breakfast entirely would be better for our waistlines—although you should probably find better ways to stay fit.
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Though all the contestants lost dozens of pounds through diet and exercise at the end of the show, by the six-year mark, their waistlines largely rebounded.
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It shouldn't be that shocking, but alas, people get all kinds of freaked out about how they're going to protect their waistlines from expanding during the holidays.
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The A4 waist challenge started in China around February and has seen hordes of Chinese women taking to their Weibo accounts to show off their trim waistlines.
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Many cancer deaths were averted after millions quit lighting up, but they are now rising because even greater numbers are unable to keep their waistlines in check.
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But for now, the findings may provide another plausible reason to get up from our chairs and perhaps help our bones to keep better track of our waistlines.
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When we're hungry, it can be hard to say no to processed foods, which are bad for our waistlines and are associated with a higher risk of cancer.
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The anti-sugar camp often suggests that, during the low-fat craze, we replaced fat with sugar in our diets — and our waistlines and health have suffered since.
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But more to the point, many of us are rising from our chairs in the hopes that sitting less will help keep our waistlines and nether quarters from spreading.
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Studies have shown that people who drink these extra calories don't compensate by consuming commensurately fewer calories from food, which has contributed mightily to the ballooning waistlines of Americans.
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While different patterns were found in each country, all three had one thing in common: Waistlines tended to grow in the 10 or so days leading up to holidays.
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The payoff in terms of health, life and dollar savings would likely far outweigh the costs of society-wide professional and public health measures to curb America's expanding waistlines.
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Thanks to the Internet, we now know what Disney princesses would look like with realistic waistlines (great!), how Disney princesses would appear if they had regular facial features (also great
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That model of plenitude seems ever more apt in Thailand, where the waistlines of the country's Buddhist monks have expanded so much that health officials have issued a nationwide warning.
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Here, the focus is on perfect fit, so you'll find smooth waistlines, bulk-free collars, and all the right vents, openings, and proportions, allowing for plenty of movement in bed.
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Though all the contestants lost dozens of pounds through extreme diets and hours of exercise at the end of the show, by the six-year mark their waistlines had largely rebounded.
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The growth of obesity in America is expanding as fast as our waistlines: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one-third of American adults are obese.
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But in the coming years, the company's machine learning technology could change how consumers decide what to eat — and, in a potentially ominous development for their waistlines, make them eat more.
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As expected, the control group's fitness and insulin sensitivity remained unbudged, while the men in both exercise groups had improved their fitness and narrowed their waistlines, although few had lost weight.
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Casual Fridays, which gained popularity in the 1990s, were the vehicle by which middle-age white men could more comfortably be themselves, accommodating expanding waistlines in pleated khakis and fleece vests.
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Men — plus-size men included — celebrate Halloween, too, of course, and many dress up, but the truth is men have more dedicated resources and less negative attention and stigma about their waistlines.
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The results suggest that activity monitors may not change our behavior in the way we expected, and raise interesting questions about the tangled relationships between exercise, eating, our willpower and our waistlines.
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Compared with those who reported not too much worry, these women had significantly higher BMIs, larger waistlines, and a greater likelihood of being obese, putting them at increased risk for heart disease.
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Those mail carriers who walked for more than three hours a day, covering at least 15,000 steps, which is about seven miles, generally had normal body mass indexes, waistlines and metabolic profiles.
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The personal touch of baking dessert yourself will make your loved ones feel extra special — and they can indulge without overthinking their waistlines because Alina Z's ingredients are far healthier than the usual fare.
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This may not seem like new insight, as we all know to steer clear of deep-fried and oily foods because the extra oil is bad for our hearts (as well as our waistlines).
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Odd as they may seem — many of her pieces lack sleeves, waistlines, necklines or even fabric (her fall/winter 2017 show was made with industrial materials, rather than with textiles) — they've already proven influential.
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Investigating the effects of screen time is like trying to measure the effects of food on people's waistlines—it depends on the kind of food they eat, how often, and external factors such as exercise.
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Washington may have suffered from a shortage of haute cuisines, but our communities could always find pho or pupusas, thus tasting the world and meeting its diaspora by expanding their palates, if not their waistlines.
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"That's what the style was, and at the time we started Gilmore, it was right when the waistlines went from your belly button down to the lower part of your [pants]," Campbell said, according to HelloGiggles.
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"Girls are supposed to be thin and have small waistlines," Trine Tetlie Eik‐Nes, a co-author of the paper and an associate professor at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology, says in a statement.
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From Civil War re-enactments to paleo diets, today's subcultures often try to recreate the bodies of bygone eras; but rather than celebrating Victorian heads and hands and waistlines, Hughes rubs our noses in their strangeness.
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Simply put, the rapid productivity gains in farming led to reduced employment in agriculture while, at the same time, leading to agricultural surpluses that simply could not be consumed fast enough despite the expanding waistlines of Americans.
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Just look at the current battle between low-rise and high-rise waistlines, the way skinny jeans replaced "mom jeans" only to be defeated once again by the sort of pants Jerry Seinfeld sported in the 1990s.
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Most of the men and women from the control group, who had not exercised 10 years before, had larger waistlines now, while the exercisers displayed little if any middle-aged spread compared to their decade-earlier selves.
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Of the many government measures proposed to curb the nation's waistlines, a so-called "sugar tax" on sweetened drinks and snacks has gained widespread support—endorsed by public health bodies, independent advisory committees, and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.
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From observational studies, we learned that adults with prolonged sitting patterns had larger waistlines, higher BMI, and in their blood had less good fats, more bad fats, and higher levels of sugar compared to adults with interrupted sitting patterns.
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These little rectangular boxes were intended to make our leisure time more leisurely, but as they have become commonplace, they have contributed to our growing waistlines and marital discord (except, of course, when they are lost in the couch cushions).
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Designer Michael Kors opted for flirty skirts and defined waistlines at his romantic New York Fashion Week show while label Marchesa paid tribute to nature and the colors of the day for its spring/summer 2017 collection.
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I expect that sort of talk from women in my mother's and grandmother's generations; I struggle with that generational difference whenever I go home, bristling at how often my family members talk about their waistlines and the need to avoid "bad" foods.
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It's tough enough for most of us to refrain from nibbling and noshing in the easiest of times, along comes a holiday like Thanksgiving that causes us to break out in a cold sweat about what the day will do to our waistlines.
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Experts say the trend mirrors the growth of American civilian waistlines — though the civilian obesity rate is more than twice as high, at nearly 40 percent of adults, according to the most recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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France has been at the forefront of tackling the issue, along with countries like Japan, where a national law requires companies and local governments to measure the waistlines of people between the ages of 40 and 74, and to encourage them to exercise.
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Meanwhile, their waistlines ("the cross-sectional area," in scientific parlance) and their body-fat percentage shrank; their insulin resistance came down; and their muscle-composition ratio shifted toward so-called slow-twitch fibres, which tire slowly and burn fat, and which predominate in long-distance runners.
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Thousands of miles over the Atlantic, made manifest by our television screens and VHS players, enormous demigods with polished bronze muscles struggled and grappled with each other, hurling their enemies about by their oily hair or tossing them around by the waistlines of their sparkly underwear.
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The report helps to explain why the decades-long campaign to curb cardiovascular disease by steering the American diet away from animal fats has been less successful than it might have been and how it inadvertently promoted expanding waistlines and an epidemic of Type 2 diabetes.
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On a private visit to the Vatican Gallery of Tapestries, the Cadet designers Raul Arevalo and Brad Schmidt got the notion of building a show of shorts-suits with deep elasticized waistlines and tunic-like shirts with either zippered or pinned shoulder closures on the garb of Roman centurions.
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Trends over time also suggest that the role of nutrition and a cleaner environment may be more important than previously thought: the study found that blood-pressure levels in rich countries had begun to fall before detection and treatment became widespread, and continued to fall even as waistlines grew wider and wider.
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In the '90s, it was all about Kate in those Calvin briefs; in the aughts, the literal rise of the barely-there, bedazzled g-string coincided with the downward descent of pant waistlines; and in the current decade, chic granny panties from small-batch indie brands like Araks and Baserange are center stage.
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So, for the new study, which was published last month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers with the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., and other institutions decided to exhort a large group of inactive people into exercising and closely track how their waistlines and daily habits changed.
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So, for the new study, which was published last month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers with the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., and other institutions decided to exhort a large group of inactive people into exercising and closely track how their waistlines and daily habits changed.
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There are, however, pockets of the global population who remain somewhat unaware of this public health crisis, despite the growth of waistlines all around them, and this lack of awareness is just one of the underlying problems, according to Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Those workers who sat for most of each day tended to have much larger waistlines, higher B.M.I.'s and worse blood sugar control and cholesterol profiles than those who frequently stood and moved, even after scientists controlled for age, family history, late-night shift work (which is known to affect heart health) and other factors.
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"This 'famine reaction,' a survival mechanism which helped humans to survive as a species when food supply was inconsistent in millennia past, is now contributing to our growing waistlines when the food supply is readily available," Nuala Byrne, who led the study with a team of collaborators from Queensland University of Technology and the University of Sydney, said in a statement.
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