Obesity in Women

Obesity has reached epidemic rates worldwide and is of serious concern to health authorities, has become a health concern. In fact, alarm their association with chronic diseases are increasing, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension, among others.

Previous studies had already put on notice that the accumulation of visceral fat, that is, having a prominent belly, quadrupled the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke as well as diabetes and even colon cancer. While health authorities are fighting it in the developed world, abdominal perimeter to grow.

Risk in women

However, being a man or woman differently impact on health. Until now it was known that women with excess fat around the waist were more likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease. However, researchers at the National Institute of Health and the Harvard Medical School (USA) go a little further, and have just published in the journal "Circulation" that the female with abdominal obesity is more risk of dying from heart disease or cancer, regardless of their weight.

The study noted that women in the group of middle and advanced age with an abdominal perimeter than 88.9 centimeters are twice as likely to die from cancer or cardiac events compared with those with a lower waist of 71 3 cm. The baby of a pregnant obese have more risk of obesity and diabetes in adulthood.

Associated with cancer, women with fat in the abdomen with a 63% more likely to die than the thin, and in addition, excess abdominal perimeter could be related to kidney and colon tumors. The survey findings also confirm a fact demonstrated in earlier studies: the risks associated with abdominal fat (high levels of harmful cholesterol and insulin resistance) are independent of body mass index (the ratio between the weight and height).

Obesity in pregnancy

Obesity also makes a dent in pregnancies. This situation adversely affects infants, because they are born with more muscle and less fat that child of women with normal weight. This means that, increasingly, both in the U.S. as in Europe, most babies born 4000 grams, which makes them more prone to obesity in adulthood. Also, a mother of a baby obese is at higher risk for diabetes, because the muscle is one of the largest consumers of glucose (sugar).

A prominent belly, in middle age, is responsible for increased risk of dementia after the seventh decade. So concludes a study published recently in the journal Neurology. According to the researcher, the perimeter would be an indicator of “deregulation” metabolic that in the long run, results in dementia.

However, the expert noted that it might be a poor indicator in the elderly by their tendency to lose muscle and gain belly. The study included a sample of about 6600 people between 40 and 45 years, which was measured abdominal density, associated, in turn, with the visceral fat around the organs.

The results suggest that having a prominent abdomen and overweight increased in 2.5 times compared to people who have a normal weight, the probability of dementia after age 70. If a big belly was very obese, the percentage rises to 3.6 times more. On the other hand, only overweight or obese is 80% higher risk. Given these figures, the researchers argue that this potential relationship is not only to obesity, but a complex set of factors associated with unhealthy behaviors and habits.

Belly Up

The desire to show off a flat stomach and waist fat free has led many manufacturers to find something like a vein of gold. Tons of ads for abdominal machines effortlessly attacked every day the television screens, promising that a few minutes a day makes abdominal fat in the desired "chocolate bar." But are they really effective? Available data suggest that there is no evidence so.

Experts say further that to get rid of abdominal fat is not just this kind of exercises. To be effective should be combined with aerobic exercise, i.e. walking, running, cycling, which are, ultimately, allowing lose calories. Abdominal exercises, they insist, are the type anaerobic, and help in any case to define the muscles. Moreover, in a state of overweight or obesity, diet is a factor.