<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b6065360-8b23-43cc-baef-365bcc48d8c1/7552B64F-574E-4D69-9E54-C4B7D7ACFDEB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.doctors.net.uk/onlinebooks/showbook.aspx?main=0&hlight=obesity&htype=and&title=otm180&file=OTM\otm-010_nutrition.xml&block=sect1" href="http://www.doctors.net.uk/onlinebooks/showbook.aspx?main=0&hlight=obesity&htype=and&title=otm180&file=OTM\otm-010_nutrition.xml&block=sect1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.doctors.net.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.doctors.net.uk/onlinebooks/showbook.aspx?main=0&hlight=obesity&htype=and&title=otm180&file=OTM\otm-010_nutrition.xml&block=sect1"><P> <FONT color="#333366"><FONT> <FONT>Prospective population studies confirm a close association between increasing body fatness and type 2 diabetes. In the Nurses Cohort Study, BMI was the dominant predictor of the risk of diabetes after adjustment for age. In this study the risk of diabetes was increased fivefold for those with a BMI of 25, 28-fold for those with a BMI of 30 and 93-fold for those with a BMI of 35 or greater. Women who gained 8 to 10.9 kg in weight during the period of study had a 2.7-fold increased risk of diabetes compared with women of stable weight. Similarly, the risk of diabetes in men increases for all BMI levels of 24 or above. The distribution of fat tissue is also independently associated with diabetes: a waist circumference of more than 102 cm (40 in) increases the risk of diabetes 3.5-fold even after controlling for the BMI.</FONT> </FONT></FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7552B64F-574E-4D69-9E54-C4B7D7ACFDEB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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