Word: kissebah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bulge is often lost at the hips. No matter how they exercise, excess pounds seem to pile up there and at the buttocks and thighs. But at last there seems to be some compensation for the pear-shaped. (No, not another grapefruit diet.) According to Dr. Ahmed Kissebah of the Medical College of Wisconsin, overweight women whose body fat is concentrated below the waist run a relatively low risk of contracting diabetes, a frequently serious disease that disrupts the normal metabolism of sugar into energy and afflicts one out of 20 Americans. Conversely, Kissebah warns, women with what he calls...
...Kissebah bases his observation on a six-year study of 52 women, 25 of them fat on top, 18 with lower-body obesity, plus a control group of nine women of normal weight. All were carefully matched for height, age and, in the case of the obese women, weight. All, says Kissebah, were "apparently healthy females whose doctors told them that they didn't have diabetes...