People with the most visceral fat have three times the risk of developing colorectal adenomas precancerous polyps than those with the least visceral fat. The relationship was found after many other risks were accounted for. The researchers also confirmed that adenomatous polyps in the colon are associated with insulin resistance, which may be the mechanism that increases the cancer risk. Where you tend to gain fat depends on your genes, your hormones, your age, your birth weight smaller babies more readily add belly fat later in life , and whether you've had children women who have given birth tend to develop more visceral fat than women who haven't.
As young adults, women on average have less visceral fat than men, but that changes with menopause. You can't change your birth weight or your genes, and you can't hold off menopause. But there are several ways you can minimize the accumulation of visceral fat.
The good news is that because it's more readily metabolized into fatty acids, it responds more efficiently to diet and exercise than fat on the hips and thighs.
Here are some approaches that may help:. Keep moving. Exercise can help reduce your waist circumference. Even if you don't lose weight, you lose visceral belly fat and gain muscle mass. Engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity activity most days, such as brisk walking or bicycling at a casual pace. Also create opportunities to add motion to routine tasks. For example, park farther from your destination and walk the rest of the way, take the stairs instead of the elevator, and stand while you talk on the phone.
Studies have shown that you can help trim visceral fat or prevent its growth with both aerobic activity such as brisk walking and strength training exercising with weights. Spot exercises, such as sit-ups, can tighten abdominal muscles but won't get at visceral fat. Exercise can also help keep fat from coming back.
Eat right. Choose a balanced diet that helps you achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Avoid products that seem to encourage belly fat deposition, especially simple sugars like fructose-sweetened foods and beverages.
Don't smoke. The more you smoke, the more likely you are to store fat in your abdomen rather than on your hips and thighs. Get your sleep. Too little is bad. A five-year study found that adults under age 40 who slept five hours or less a night accumulated significantly more visceral fat. But too much isn't good, either — young adults who slept more than eight hours also added visceral fat. This relationship wasn't found in people over age Mind your mood.
Two healthy moves will help spare you from age-related macular degeneration AMD , one of the most common causes of vision loss in Westerners over age Step it up. People who walk at least three times a week are less likely to develop wet AMD, which can smudge out central vision. Wet AMD is an advanced form of AMD, and it happens when rogue blood vessels grow under the macula that's the part of your eye in the center of the retina.
These new vessels aren't the sturdiest, and they tend to leak fluid. In your eye, leaks raise the macula, causing permanent damage there. And while it might just take three days a week of walking to chase off AMD, the rest of your body needs you to walk for at least 30 minutes every day. Go shopping. Pick up some trout or salmon -- and eat it. Abdominal fat cells can be treated as active endocrine organs that produce hormones. An excess of abdominal fat disrupts the functioning of the hormones.
The fat cells release chemicals such as cytokines and interleukin-6 that add to the risk of heart diseases. They also have a harmful effect on blood pressure and the blood's clotting ability. High amount of visceral fat in the body leads to increased LDL or bad cholesterol and a decrease in HDL or good cholesterol. It also results in insulin resistance whereby blood glucose levels rise.
This can lead to diabetes. Diet, sedentary lifestyle, lack of exercise, and hormonal changes contribute to fat accumulation in the abdominal region. Tests to establish syndrome X include measuring blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol, and triglyceride levels. Weight reduction is the ultimate objective of any treatment procedure adopted to tackle metabolic syndrome. Lifestyle changes, medicine, and surgery are the treatment options available in order to reduce weight so that the risk of heart disease and diabetes can be brought down.
Those who have low levels of adiponectin have abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and other risk factors associated with coronary artery disease. There are even links between omentum fat and cancer. Those are the reasons why the fat in your thighs doesn't matter as much to your health as does omentum fat even if it matters for your bikini pride , and it helps explain why omentum fat or an apple shape is more harmful than subcutaneous fat like thigh fat, which gives you a pear shape.
Subcutaneous fat isn't supplying a feeding tube to the rest of your vital internal organs—and it's not messing up the levels of substances in your blood that are being supplied to your vital organs. The closer your waist is to ideal, then the healthier your arteries and your immune system will be.
The healthier your arterial and immune systems, the longer—and better—you'll live. And the more energy you'll have every day. Now researchers Ditching belly fat may be a simple matter of choosing the right rice or bread.
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