Unpublished Newswire

Carla MacLeod has been diagnosed with breast cancer, but the overwhelming and positive response to the announcement is giving the Ottawa Charge’s head coach confidence in her fight. 

While it’s been acknowledged for some time that visceral fat — belly fat —that wraps around internal organs is a health hazard, new research suggests it’s particularly dangerous to the male heart. Researchers who studied advanced cardiovascular MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans of 2,244 adults aged 46 to 78 without known heart disease found that abdominal obesity — an unhealthy hip-to-waist ratio —  is associated with worrisome patterns of “cardiac remodelling,” more so than overall weight alone. The findings “highlight the need for personalized risk assessment in obesity-...