You might think a little weight around your midsection is harmless, but authors of a new paper caution having pudge in the area could signal a serious condition that may cut years off your life.
In their commentary, published this week in the Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, researchers at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) wrote that having love handles could be a sign of metabolic syndrome, which is a combination of three or more factors: abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, abnormal lipids and insulin resistance.
