Excess Fat- Linked To Major Diseases

Did you know that maintaining a good healthy body fat is a vital thing to consider? Not only does excess body make us feel heavy and look heavy but it also feeds and influence some major illnesses and diseases that kill vast number of people today.

Medical evidences show that obesity or excess body fat foremost threat to the health and longevity of people’s lives. Obesity among men is those with excess body fat of 25% while more than 32% for women.

According to statistics, one of three Americans has excess body fat while an estimated 20% percent are obese.

Medical science also link excess body fat to major health threats like heart disease (no.1 cause of death in America), diabetes and cancer. To site an example, an obese person needed more energy to breathe because their heart will work twice as hard to pump blood to sustain the lungs and other vital organs, this exhaust the heart because of increased workload thus enlarging the heart that causes high blood pressure and life threatening erratic heartbeats.

Obese person also have high cholestorel levels, making them a prey to arteriosclerosis, which is a narrowing of the arteries by deposits of plaques. This unhealthy process becomes life threatening if it starts to narrow down or blocked the blood vessels that are channeling the vital organs. High blood pressure alone can pose various health risks such as, heart attack, stroke and kidney failure. It is also a known fact that about 25 percent of all heart attacks are associated with obesity and excess body fat.

Another very alarming fact about excess fat and obesity is its relationship with the incidence of cancer. To be exact, body fat is a storage palce of cancer-causing chemicals also known as carcinogens; it can both affect men and women. In women the threat of cancer will be of breast and uterine while in men, the threats come from colon and prostrate.

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