What was your weight 5 years ago? 10 years ago? What is your weight now? What would your weight be 10 years from now considering the trend? Assess your weight and your health risk using the information below.
What is fat? It is your body`s energy storage. Like any other body tissue, it needs to be supplied with blood. If you have excess fat in your body, your heart would need to pump harder. What if you have 10, 20, or even 50 pounds of excess fat? Your heart would always be working more than it should. You need to do something about it. You can! And we can help you.
Visceral fat, also known as organ or abdominal fat, is located around your internal organs (generally in your abdominal area). High level of visceral fat means high health risk. Visceral fat accumulation is associated with increased risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, high LDL ("bad") cholesterol, type-2 diabetes, and stroke.
What is being fat? Being fat is a form of malnutrition. Malnutrition could be under or overnutrition. Being fat also means that you lack of protein. Usually, fat people eat too much carbohydrates or food rich in sugar. It is common for people who want to lose weight to skip a meal or eat much less food (biscuits or a sandwich, for example). This could only add to their state of malnutrition.If you do not look fat, it is still possible to actually have excess fats and be overweight or obese. You may even have a healthy weight and BMI. This means that you do not have a healthy amount muscle mass. The best way to know about the amount of fat in the body is to undergo a body fat analysis.
Obesity is a serious health problem. Excessive body fats increases your risk to cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus type 2, sleep apnea, and osteoarthritis. Excessive body fats also lowers your level of adiponectin, a protein hormone that has anti-inflammatory effects on the cells at the walls of your blood vessels. This increases your chances of various diseases like diabetes mellitus, hypertension, atherosclerosis (which can result to heart attack), and so on. A recent American Cancer Society study showed that overweight women (BMI > 25) are 1.3 to 2.1 times more likely to die from breast cancer compared to women with normal BMI.
High level of triglycerides and LDL ("bad") cholesterol in the blood stream have been linked to risk in hypertension, heart disease, stroke, and peripheral artery disease resulting from atherosclerosis (or thickening of the walls of the arteries). Taking your lipid profile regularly can help you monitor and take action to prevent or reverse this condition.
According to Johns Hopkins, "Research consistently shows that overweight people who drop pounds also drop millimeters of mercury, according to a recent report published in Hypertension. The researchers found that, on average, for every 2.2 pounds (or 1 kilo) of weight lost, blood pressure dropped by about 1/1 mm Hg. For example, people who lost about 11 pounds, had their blood pressure drop by 4.4/3.6 mm Hg."
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