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Excerpt Ageless Athletic Assassin: Page 164
WAIST SIZE HEALTH
In general, women have greater absolute body fat percentages than men. Typically, women carry more fat around the legs, hip, buttocks, chest, and upper arms. Here are other common body parts where you may find fat.
Thunder thighs are something you should be proud of. A study by the British Medical Journal “Large Thighs Protect Against Heart Disease and Early Death” found that men and women whose thighs are less than 60 centimeters (23.6 inches) in circumference have a higher risk of premature death and heart disease. As such doctors recommend patients not to forget leg day to increase their thigh size.
A big booty is fine according to an Oxford University study suggesting that a big booty helps protect you from diabetes and heart disease. The idea is that lower-body fat in your thighs, hips, and buttocks traps fatty acids from the foods you eat so they don’t float through your bloodstream and get deposited in organs to harm you.
Magazines tend to depict having big breasts as attractive but it’s actually unhealthy per a Harvard University and University of Toronto joint study of more than 92,000 women showing that women with big breasts were at greater risk of type 2 diabetes. Women who have a D cup at age 20 were three times more likely to develop diabetes as they aged.
If you think that going thru belly surgery or a fad diet is all you need for a slim body without any exercise, think again. Putting time in the weight room helps build the necessary muscles that burn calories faster than other tissues. Muscle cells are also more responsive to insulin - lowering blood sugar levels without requiring the high insulin levels that are associated with high cardiovascular risk.
There are two kinds of fat in this world. One is subcutaneous - the layer of fat cells under your skin that your body uses to store fuel. Subcutaneous fat is the squishy fat just under the surface of your skin that jiggles when you walk and isn’t considered hazardous. The other type of fat is dangerous called visceral (belly) fat which are fat cells that accumulate inside the body in and around your organs. Visceral fat secretes greater levels of adipokines – chemicals that trigger inflammation – and releases more fatty acids into the bloodstream that can put you at risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, and dementia.
When you buy life insurance or get your annual medical check, a health professional can tell if you possess a dangerous amount of belly fat by measuring your waist. If your waist measures 35 or more inches for women or 40 or more inches for men, you possess a dangerous amount of belly fat.
What makes belly (visceral) fat so harmful? Your liver can borrow the visceral fat to turn it into cholesterol that can slip into your bloodstream and start collecting along your arteries. Increased cholesterol causes the arteries to harden that can lead to a heart attack or stroke. Belly fat also causes the body to become insulin-resistant, raises your glucose levels, and decreases your muscle mass.
Until midlife, men usually have a greater percentage of visceral fat than women, but the pattern reverses as women pass through menopause. Few females escape the midlife waistline expansion as body fat redistributes and visceral fat pushes out our bellies. Aging plays a role where you lose muscle if you don’t exercise. Loss of muscle mass decreases the rate at which your body uses calories - making it challenging to maintain a healthy weight.
The Million Women Study conducted in Britain demonstrated a direct link between the development of coronary heart disease and an increase in waist circumference over a 20-year period where every additional two inches in the women’s waist size raised their heart disease risk by 10 percent.
A study of 6,583 members of Kaiser Permanente of Northern California who were followed for an average of 36 years found that those with the greatest amount of abdominal obesity in midlife were three times likely to develop dementia than those with the least abdominal fat in thirty years.
WAIST SIZE HEALTH
In general, women have greater absolute body fat percentages than men. Typically, women carry more fat around the legs, hip, buttocks, chest, and upper arms. Here are other common body parts where you may find fat.
Thunder thighs are something you should be proud of. A study by the British Medical Journal “Large Thighs Protect Against Heart Disease and Early Death” found that men and women whose thighs are less than 60 centimeters (23.6 inches) in circumference have a higher risk of premature death and heart disease. As such doctors recommend patients not to forget leg day to increase their thigh size.
A big booty is fine according to an Oxford University study suggesting that a big booty helps protect you from diabetes and heart disease. The idea is that lower-body fat in your thighs, hips, and buttocks traps fatty acids from the foods you eat so they don’t float through your bloodstream and get deposited in organs to harm you.
Magazines tend to depict having big breasts as attractive but it’s actually unhealthy per a Harvard University and University of Toronto joint study of more than 92,000 women showing that women with big breasts were at greater risk of type 2 diabetes. Women who have a D cup at age 20 were three times more likely to develop diabetes as they aged.
If you think that going thru belly surgery or a fad diet is all you need for a slim body without any exercise, think again. Putting time in the weight room helps build the necessary muscles that burn calories faster than other tissues. Muscle cells are also more responsive to insulin - lowering blood sugar levels without requiring the high insulin levels that are associated with high cardiovascular risk.
There are two kinds of fat in this world. One is subcutaneous - the layer of fat cells under your skin that your body uses to store fuel. Subcutaneous fat is the squishy fat just under the surface of your skin that jiggles when you walk and isn’t considered hazardous. The other type of fat is dangerous called visceral (belly) fat which are fat cells that accumulate inside the body in and around your organs. Visceral fat secretes greater levels of adipokines – chemicals that trigger inflammation – and releases more fatty acids into the bloodstream that can put you at risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, and dementia.
When you buy life insurance or get your annual medical check, a health professional can tell if you possess a dangerous amount of belly fat by measuring your waist. If your waist measures 35 or more inches for women or 40 or more inches for men, you possess a dangerous amount of belly fat.
What makes belly (visceral) fat so harmful? Your liver can borrow the visceral fat to turn it into cholesterol that can slip into your bloodstream and start collecting along your arteries. Increased cholesterol causes the arteries to harden that can lead to a heart attack or stroke. Belly fat also causes the body to become insulin-resistant, raises your glucose levels, and decreases your muscle mass.
Until midlife, men usually have a greater percentage of visceral fat than women, but the pattern reverses as women pass through menopause. Few females escape the midlife waistline expansion as body fat redistributes and visceral fat pushes out our bellies. Aging plays a role where you lose muscle if you don’t exercise. Loss of muscle mass decreases the rate at which your body uses calories - making it challenging to maintain a healthy weight.
The Million Women Study conducted in Britain demonstrated a direct link between the development of coronary heart disease and an increase in waist circumference over a 20-year period where every additional two inches in the women’s waist size raised their heart disease risk by 10 percent.
A study of 6,583 members of Kaiser Permanente of Northern California who were followed for an average of 36 years found that those with the greatest amount of abdominal obesity in midlife were three times likely to develop dementia than those with the least abdominal fat in thirty years.
