{"id":6572,"date":"2009-03-19T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=6572"},"modified":"2009-03-20T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T16:11:50","slug":"neck-size-may-predict-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/neck-size-may-predict-heart-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Neck Size May Predict Heart Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re usually told to gauge our heart attack risk by the size of our waistlines. The more belly fat, the higher the risk. Well, you may be &#8220;up to your neck&#8221; in heart problems. And both men and women need to take heed.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Preventions_Flat_Belly_Diet\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/necksize.jpg\" alt=\"belly fat\" width=\"158\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your neck size may be a predictor of <a title=\"Low Cholesterol Diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Low_Cholesterol_Diet\/\" target=\"_self\">heart disease<\/a> risk, according to two new studies on the subject. The researchers found that the bigger a person&#8217;s neck size, the greater their risk of having high levels of LDL &#8220;bad&#8221; cholesterol and blood fat, insulin resistance, and <a title=\"Glycemic Index\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Glycemic_Index\/\" target=\"_self\">high blood sugar<\/a>. Maybe the most interesting and telling aspect of their findings is that it held true even excluding belly fat.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The findings come from data collected from 3,320 people.<\/p>\n<p>(via: <a title=\"heart disease\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/heart-disease\/news\/20090311\/neck-size-linked-to-heart-disease?src=RSS_PUBLIC\" target=\"_blank\">WebMD<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re usually told to gauge our heart attack risk by the size of our waistlines. The more belly fat, the higher the risk. Well, you may be &#8220;up to your neck&#8221; in heart problems. And both men and women need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/neck-size-may-predict-heart-disease\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[804],"tags":[1172,896,31,351],"class_list":["post-6572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heart-disease","tag-blood-sugar","tag-cholesterol","tag-health-news","tag-insulin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6572"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6731,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions\/6731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}