Put Down That Beer Gut
I like surveys. Surveys can be fun. But some surveys can turn deadly - like this one!
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...
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".