Date published: 2005/09/19
The BBC says:
Many people in the UK do not know that having a large waist measurement increases their risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease, a survey suggests.
The National Obesity Forum says 80% of people in a survey across 27 countries were unaware it was linked to diabetes.
Three quarters of 100 UK GPs questioned knew abdominal obesity was a risk factor for heart disease and diabetes.
But only 18% of patients at risk of these diseases said they had had their waists measured.
"Risk factor" means there is a correlation, and you can find correlations between all sorts of things in life. Are people supposed to be aware of every correlation ever found? And do people not really know that being fat is not a healthy situation? All in all a rather silly article.
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