Live longer if your waist is half your height
Want to know what’s the key to a long and healthy life? Well, it all depends on your waist, says a new study.
In fact, one will live longer if one’s waist is half one’s height. This actually increases life expectancy by slashing the risk of diabetes and heart disease, according to British researchers.
The researchers from Ashwell Associates, Oxford Brookes University, and Sig-Nurture Ltd have shown that waist- height ratio is a better indicator than body mass index because it takes into account differing ethnic groups.
Dr Margaret Ashwell, who led the study, was quoted by the Daily Express as saying, Keeping your waist circumference to less than half your height can help increase life expectancy for every person in the world.”
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Man appeals to thieves to give back tortoise
London: A heartbroken owner of a rare tortoise in Britain has made an emotional appeal to the thieves to return his 93-year-old pet as he fears that it won’t survive without its master. Rex Coxeter spent 63 years of his life caring for Timmy, the tortoise. The 74-year-old owner has now offered a cash reward for his darling pet’s return, the Daily Express reported. He was given the endangered Hermann’s tortoise at the age of 11 when the pet was already 30.
Now a grandfather of seven, Coxeter said: “It is a nightmare to lose him after all these years. My grandchildren are more upset than anyone else. They’ve grown up with him all their lives.”
The grandpa fears the thieves will not know how to care for Timmy. “I know what he likes. He is an old man... I know his funny ways.” — IANS
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