“Perhaps the most alarming health effect is cancer. Obese and even overweight persons are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer of the breast, esophagus, colon, uterus, and kidney.
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overweight.aspx
There is so much evidence and medical science to prove that being
overweight/obese can ruin your health. It isn’t a lost cause, you CAN change your eating habits and you CAN lose the weight but you need
to be 150% committed to the journey and have a good plan of attack.
The most harmful fat is the extra fat we carry around our abdomen.
Abdominal fat interferes with how the heart, liver and intestines work by secreting chemicals that inhibits these organs from functioning
properly. Abdominal fat can also be an indicator of Type II diabetes.
For women if your waist is more than 35 inches at the belly button and for men if it is more than 40 inches then you lie within the “high risk” category of heart disease, diabetes, blood pressure and stroke and
must lose weight.
Another harmful effect of the extra fat is that this fat gets into our bloodstream and over time it can clog our arteries. As the arteries become clogged it is more difficult for your heart to pump the blood through your body. The extra effort your heart needs to push this
blood raises you blood pressure. It can take only an extra 30 pounds to force your heart to work twice as hard to do the same job it did when you were just 30 pounds lighter.
Higher than normal blood pressure damages the blood vessels in your kidneys and can cause them to fail. Another possible effect of high blood pressure is blindness which is caused when blood vessels in the eyes burst and bleed from the increased pressure.
When you think of high blood pressure you might not think of the
damage it can do to your blood vessels. The excess fat that makes
your blood vessels smaller causes the pressure of the blood against the vessel walls to increase. Over time this added pressure weakens the walls until the wall cannot withstand the pressure and it bursts. The result is a stroke which can be life threatening.
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