Fat is a living breathing entity that affects the body's hormones, inflammation, and even toxin levels. Although it's hard to stick with healthier food and exercising every day, this info on what fat actually does to your body is a perfect motivator anytime you need guidance sticking to your diet and changing your body composition.
Excess body fat is related to significant actual hazards such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.
For example, if you're obese, it takes more energy for you to breathe, so your heart needs to work harder to pump blood to the lungs and extra fat in the body. This increased workload can cause the heart to become swollen, which may result in high blood pressure and life-threatening irregular heartbeats.
Obese individuals also appear to have elevated amounts of cholesterol, rendering them more vulnerable to arteriosclerosis, shrinking the arteries by plaque deposits. This is life-threatening because blood arteries become so small or blocked that vital organs such as the brain, heart, or kidneys are robbed of blood.
Clinical trials have established a relationship between excess body fat and the prevalence of cancer. Body fat is believed to be a storage area for carcinogens (cancer-causing chemicals) in both men and women.
There is also a delicate balance between blood sugar, body fat, and insulin hormone. Excessive blood sugar is retained in the liver and other vital organs; when the organs are "full," excess blood sugar is converted to fat.
When fat cells themselves become full, they begin to take less blood sugar. In certain obese patients, the pancreas produces more and more insulin that the body cannot use to control blood sugar levels, and the entire system is exhausted. This inadequate control of blood sugar and insulin results in diabetes, long-term illness, involving heart disease, renal failure, paralysis, amputation, and death.
The good thing is that decreasing body fat lowers the risk of disease. There's hope.
Moderate weight loss- of fat, not muscle-and a healthy and active lifestyle-not diet-has been shown to decrease cardiovascular complications and medical conditions in 90% of overweight people, increasing their cardiac rhythm, blood pressure, glucose metabolism, sleep disturbances, and cholesterol levels, lowering their drug requirements and reducing the incidence and length of hospitalization.
So, are you willing to be patient and make gradual changes in your life that will lead to a healthier, happier you?
