article_snippet: The association between heart disease and being overweight is extremely strong.
article_snippet: Not least because obesity puts you at risk of type 2 diabetes which, in obesity, increases the risk of heart disease and multiple other conditions.
article_snippet: If you carry more weight around your waist than your hips you are even more at risk.
article_snippet: A high ratio (over 0.85 for women or one for men) means increased risk of health problems such as heart attacks, high blood pressure or diabetes… even if you aren’t that overweight.
article_snippet: Dr Sally Norton notes the association between heart disease and being overweight is 'extremely strong', urging people to watch people waistlines .
article_snippet: A large population study in the US showed that people who consumed more than 25 per cent of people who consumed more than 25 per cent of their daily calories from added sugar daily calories from added sugar had almost three times the risk of dying from heart disease.
article_snippet: That was compared with those people who consumed less than 10 per cent of those people who consumed less than 10 per cent of their calories each day through sugar, independent of other risk factors including weight calories each day through sugar, independent of other risk factors including weight.
article_snippet: More and more evidence suggests that too much sugar is contributing to the obesity and diabetes epidemic too, and as it offers no nutrients whatsoever.
article_snippet: A large study in the US revealed people who consumed more than 25 per cent of A large study in the US daily calories from added sugar had almost three times the risk of dying from heart disease .
article_snippet: ‘cortisol’ can increase unhealthy fat around the middle, raising your risk of heart problems, as well as leading to cravings for high fat and sugar foods, which only make things worse.