I like surveys. Surveys can be fun. But some surveys can turn deadly - like this one!

If you gotta go, go with a smile!
If you gotta go, go with a smile!
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I love taking surveys. Especially the ones on Facebook. Which Star Wars character am I? Sure, I wanna know! Which Star Trek character am I? Hey, I don't want to find out I'm actually a Red Shirt, right? Which super-hero am I? Well I kinda know that one already...

Be yourself, unless you can be Batman. Then dress for the job you want, not the job you have...
Be yourself, unless you can be Batman. Then dress for the job you want, not the job you have...
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There's a new survey out, posted on GQ.com, that reveals it's not the beer that's bad for you - it's the beer gut. Guys, you can be thin, but if you're rockin' the beer gut, that can be - - (duh-duh-duhnnnnn!!!) deadly. A moment on the lips, forever around the hips.

Not to minimize this or make light of this, but the study revealed that, "persons with normal-weight central obesity had the worst long-term survival". What is "normal-weight central obesity"? Being skinny-fat. That's being thin, but having a beer gut. According to a CNN.com report on the study, that may be based on geography.

The study, posted on the Annals of Internal Medicine website, says that a guy with that normal-weight central obesity has twice the mortality risk as a guy without a beer gut!

It's not that beer is what's bad for you, it's the beer gut. So maybe a little exercise is in order to minimize the beer gut and lower that mortality risk. It's not so much "Put down the beer", as "lace up the running shoes".

Check out the study here, CNN's coverage here, and the GQ coverage here.

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