Talk:Central obesity
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[edit] Too much on resistin
The entire paragraph on the relationship between central obesity and T2DM focuses too much on resistin. Adiponectin is strongly, albeit inversely, correlated with insulin resistance, and could also be mentioned here. I suggest revwriting this paragraph without so much emphasis on resistin. Magfas (talk) 03:52, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] "There is little scientific evidence that beer drinkers are more prone to abdominal obesity"
This comment isn't false exactly but it's misleading. Beer has a lot of calories. 3 stubbies per day = ~400 calories. Added to an otherwise balanced calorie intake that results in a weight gain of around 19kg (42 lbs) over a year! Beer doesn't make the fat deposits go to the belly but it's certainly a contributor to obesity. --irrevenant [ talk ] 09:55, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge from "Love handles" and "Muffin top"
I am proposing merging "Love handles" and "Muffin top" into this article. It seems to me those two articles are really doing nothing but defining terms related to this topic. Following the principle that "Wikipedia is not a dictionary" I propose that these are not unique articles (or at least not sufficiently unique to merit separate articles) and that their content should be merged here. Although I do think there is some unique content there, unique content does not by itself justify a separate article (i.e. the unique content can be merged). There has to be a substantially unique topic and I do not believe that is the case here.
--Mcorazao 16:20, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm not an expert but I think that both love handles and muffin top are caused by subcutaneous fat whereas Central obesity is correlated with visceral fat. Also love handles and muffin top are names used by people in the street (slang ?) not necessarily referring to a medical condition where central obesity is a medical condition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.73.157.37 (talk) 20:32, August 27, 2007 (UTC)
Again not an expert, but central obesity is a properly defined medical issue, and muffin top is a slang term that could technically happen to anyone even if they aren't centrally obese, or aren't obese at all, with the wrong pants! 144.137.210.156 07:42, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merging muffin top into this article.
Im going to merge them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jupiter849 (talk • contribs) 09:06, 2 January 2008 (UTC) I merged them already. Jupiter849 (talk) 23:55, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Merging while the comments in this discussion seem to be against it doesn't seem to be the right thing to me somehow. 82.73.157.37 (talk) 19:14, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
I've merged Muffin Top into this article since it replicates the information in this article. If it's separated again, I'll request page protection on Muffin Top. Cumulus Clouds (talk) 19:17, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
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- Ditto on Love Handles. Cumulus Clouds (talk) 19:18, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Mergers
A merge discussion for Muffin top can be found here.
A merge discussion for Love handles can be found here.
Please feel free to contribute!-- JediLofty User ¦ Talk 09:33, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Request for Comment
Cumulus Clouds merged the Love handles amd Muffin top articles to the Central obesity article with no evident discussion, despite the fact that Muffin top survived an AfD nomination in May 2007. When I restored the articles and removed the text from the Central obesity article he reverted. I split the articles again and suggested a discussion, yet the article has been reverted again. I would like the articles to remain distinct until a proper consensus can be reached.-- JediLofty User ¦ Talk 19:31, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] My Picture
Bit old now, but I've cropped it so it doesn't have any background crap in it. Should display the subject a bit better =) - Boochan (talk) 06:52, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
