Do you know that where you carry your extra weight may be putting at major risk  for metabolic syndrome. The risk of gaining weight round you middle increases your changes of high blood pressure and heart disease. In fact you’re three times as likely to have a heart attack and twice as likely to die from  a stroke.

It’s estimated that metabolic syndrome occurs in close to 45 percent of
Americans, age 60 to 69 and  something less than that in people who are 70 years old.  The problem is obesity is associated with a larger risk of cardiovascular disease and how serious that is depends on where the fat is deposited. In other words, if you have fate in your abdomen you ware in for heart problems.

Actually metabolic syndrome isn’t a disease in itself.  It describes a group of risk factors such as high blood pressure and elevated blood glucose which is usually caused by overeating and inactivity. This creates insulin resistance for the patient, causing the pancreas to produce excessive insulin to overcompensate of excel glucose. If it goes untreated the hatpeints metabolic syndrome usually result in type 2 diabetes.

Now the patient has another problem… a bigger problem.  Insulin resistances recreates inflammation in the fat cells that surround the internal organs. These fat cells are called visceral adipose tissue and the inflammation causes atherosclerosis or plaque build up inside your arteries which can cause heart attack or stroke.

There was a study published in the February 2008 issue of Circulation  magazine in which researchers transplanted visceral fat from obese mice into healthy, non-obese mice which subsequently developed into atherosclerosis.  Another group of non-obese mice received transplants of fat found beneath the skin not associated with metabolic syndrome but none of these mice developed atherosclerosis.

One of the key points this study showed was that the inflammation from the visceral fat was actually transferred from one mouse to another. According to the report this kind of fact is associated with chronic, low-grade inflammation If it continues there is a larger risk of heart blockage.

The good news is that metabolic syndrome can be improved with diet. Body weight, waist circumference and body fate percentage can all be decrease with less calories.

Exercise is another way to  reduce the amount of abdominal fate for a person. Exercise improves insulin sensitivity and helps burn calories which then helps eliminate visceral fat. It’s not a pill that is the cure: it’s exercise and less eating.

To your heart health.

Ruthan

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