You don’t have to be overweight to develop asthma…guess what, It’s the “pot belly” effect that can increase the risk of getting asthma and several other dangerous diseases.

Just plain old ‘fat’ stored in strategic areas of our bodies can affect our overall health. Thus the “whereabouts” of fat in our human body is an important issue for our over-all health. And fat stored around the waistline, even in a slim person, can be dangerous.

I think most of us already know that even in people with a normal, healthy weight level, but are carrying lots of stored fat around their abdomen are also more likely to develop heart disease and some forms of cancer than those individuals with a slimmer waist line.

Studying over 100,000 women of all shapes and sizes, researchers found that the obese were twice as likely to develop asthma as their slimmer counterparts.

They also found that the women who had a large waistline even though they were of normal weight, were 37 per cent more likely to develop the disease.

And what is the reason for this? Well, research suggests that too much fat accumulated around the belly causes chemical reactions in the body which can adversely affect health.

Julie Von Behren, from the Northern California Cancer Centre, one of the co-authors of the study, warned that “abdominal obesity” was rising faster than the traditional measurements.

She added: “All measures of obesity were strongly associated with increased asthma prevalence. Even being modestly overweight was associated with higher asthma prevalence in this population.”

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