580% Higher Diabetes and 76% Higher Risk to Die Before Your Time, if Your Trunk-To-Leg Fat Ratio is in the Highest Quartile. Plus: Below 1.5 is Where You Want to Be
Body fat: If you store it, store it here or a couple of centimeters below. To avoid metabolic disease and premature death. 580% that's the SuppVersity Figure of the Week and the increase in diabetes risk you will have if your trunk to leg fat ratio is in the top quartile . In view of the fact that this goes hand in hand with a +290% increased risk for high triglycerides, a +80 increased risk of high blood pressure, as well as 3x higher hances to suffer from low HDL levels and 3.6x higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome, these figures from a study that was recently conducted at the University of California Berkeley-University of California San Francisco (Wilson. 2013), will be more than just the figure(s) of the week. They are also the topic of this article.. Trunk to leg fat ratio emerges as the new marker of metabolic health (Wilson. 2013) The actual intention of the study Joseph P. Wilson et al. conducted was to find a new and reliable anthropometric marker f...
