'Love Handles' can kill

If you have "love handles" then beware that your lungs may be in danger. A research on 120,000 men and women showed that the more weight you have on your waist, the more you will experience shortage of breath and thus lung malfunction.

Dr Noemi Eiser, honorary medical director of the British Lung Foundation, told the BBC: "It is widely known that obesity and a lack of exercise is detrimental to your health but this research highlights how being overweight affects your lungs."

A big waist size can be deadly. Each extra 2ins (5cm) raised the chance of early death by between 13% and 17%, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study.

The British Heart Foundation also find out that risk of heart disease is higher when there is fat concentrated around the waist.

Sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy food and lack of exercise add to a bigger waist and thus bring more health risks.

Children TV fans are more likely to have asthma

For some mothers, TV is a good way to keep their children busy when they need time for themselves or have some household work to do. They do not know that they are putting their children in danger.

Children who spend more than two hours a day on TV are more likely to develop asthma. Not because TV takes their breath away, but because it keeps children too attached to it that they do not want to have other activities any more.

This has been scientifically proven through a study at Glasgow University on 14,000 children followed from the age of birth and until the age of 11 and a half. Children who watched more than two hours of TV a day at 39 months were twice as likely to have developed the condition, according to the study that was appeared today in the journal Thorax.

Elaine Vickers at the charity Asthma UK told The Guardian: "We have one of the highest rates of childhood asthma in the world so it is especially important that parents in the UK try to prise their kids away from the TV and encourage them to lead an active lifestyle. This includes children with asthma, who can also greatly benefit from regular exercise."