Good news: a big bum = healthy! Health, Diet and Fitness Today - 12/01/10
Posted: 12/01/2010 at 08:04pm by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
Always ones to promote the healthy ideal, we’ve got some news today that some women may be happy to hear!
In a statement today from scientists at Oxford University, it was reported that carrying extra weight on your hips, bum and thighs is good for your health, protecting against heart and metabolic problems.
Hip fat mops up harmful fatty acids and contains an anti-inflammatory agent that stops arteries clogging, they said.
Big booties are preferable to extra fat around the waistline, which gives no such protection, the Oxford team said. Scientists could soon be looking for ways to deliberately increase hip fat, the researchers told the International Journal of Obesity.
And in the future, doctors might prescribe ways to redistribute body fat to the hips to protect against cardiovascular and metabolic diseases such as diabetes.
The researchers said having too little fat around the hips can lead to serious metabolic problems, as occurs in Cushing's syndrome.
Evidence and my personal experience with clients shows that fat around the thighs and bum is harder to shift than fat around the waist, perhaps a sign that the body wants to retain the body fat in the area due to its benefits.
The slower burning hip fat also makes more of the hormone adiponectin that protects the arteries and promotes better blood sugar control and fat burning.
In comparison, carrying excess fat around the stomach raises the risk of diabetes and heart disease.
Lead researcher Dr Konstantinos Manolopoulos, of Oxford University, said: "It is shape that matters and where the fat gathers.
"Fat around the hips and thighs is good for you but around the tummy is bad."
He said in an ideal world, the more fat around the thighs the better - as long as the tummy stays slim, although aesthetically, this sounds like something of an oddity!
"Unfortunately, you tend not to get one without the other," he said.
Fotini Rozakeas of the British Heart Foundation said: "This research helps us better to understand how fat acts in the body in order to develop new approaches in reducing heart and circulatory disease.
"If you are overweight, obese, or if you have a waist size that is increased, it is important to make changes to your lifestyle, such as eating a healthy diet and doing regular physical activity, to reduce your risk of heart health problems." 
Jennifer Lopez's famous derriere is doing more than making her the envy of many, according to the research by scientists at Oxford Uni
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Unfortunately I missed it, but next year I will definitely celebrate Fitness day. By the way, Jeniffera Lopez looks amazing on that picture!
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