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Unlike belly fat, gaining or losing fat around the hips didn’t seem to affect how likely women were to die or have heart disease over six years.
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The study looked at how changes in waist and hip size over six years affected health in Nordic women. It found that changing hip size didn’t affect risk of death or heart disease — which is exactly what the claim says.
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