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How Harmful is Abdominal Obesity to Your Health?
Posted by admin in Prescription Obesity Drugs on August 13th, 2009
Do not take lightly that excessive belly fat sticking in front. It affects your health more than just being an ugly sight.
Crippling Your lung function
A research published in the medical journal, Chest stated that there’s a relationship between lung function and overall obesity and abdominal adiposity (collection of fats) in 2,153 adults in New York.
In fact, abdominal adiposity was a better predictor of lung function than weight or body mass index (BMI). The research further showed that increasing obesity, in particular abdominal obesity, is inversely related to lung function.
For instance, women with a large waist circumference and abdominal height (base-to-top belly measurement) were more likely to suffer from poor lung function.
Raising Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
Abdominal fats surrounding organs or visceral fat (stubborn fat within the tissues) can lead to unwanted blood clotting and plaque formation in the blood vessels, thereby putting you at risk of a heart attack or stroke when the plaque ruptures and blocks the vessels.
That’s why abdominal obesity is one of the culprits in Metabolic Syndrome, an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
Metabolic Syndrome is a cluster of conditions comprising high blood pressure, high blood sugar and lipid abnormalities.
Doctors agree that in the United States, if obesity problem persists, Metabolic Syndrome may soon overtake cigarette smoking as the primary risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
Triggering Colon Cancer
Another report in the International Journal of Cancer proved that women with large waistline run higher risk of colon cancer.
In this research, out of the 24,000 women involved in this 10 years research, 212 women were diagnosed with colon cancer during the follow-up sessions.
The researchers found that as central adiposity (estimated by waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio) raised, so too did the risk of colon cancer.
A possible explanation could be a lack of exercise that may step up the risk of colon cancer. Researchers also feel that a fat-related hormone called leptin associated with colon cancer could also be the cause.
Despite researches and studies mentioned above pointed out that women with fat tummy tend to run higher risk in some deleterious illnesses, doctors and specialists have stressed that paunchy men should not slack off as they might develop other damaging illnesses, shortening their lifespan even more than the women.
So, whether you’re a man or woman, steer clear of your belly fat is the only solution to becoming healthier.
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