Last Updated on January 7, 2021
A pot belly is an alarming sign that you need to be extremely concerned about your health, even if you have skinny legs, arms, and bottom.
According to a study examining cardiovascular and total mortality risks linked to central obesity and normal body mass index (BMI), men who have excess belly fat also have double the mortality risk of those who are obese or overweight while women with similar fatty bellies have 1.5 times higher chances of dying.
This is even more shocking considering that obesity comes with higher risks of getting cancer, diabetes, a stroke, or a heart attack. Strictly speaking, your beer belly might be killing you, even though you’re slim everywhere else and have a “healthy” BMI.
“I am not fat!”
Dr. Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, the co-author of the study, shares with us the things some of his patients with a normal BMI told him: “why is it necessary to exercise when the BMI is normal?”
“I am not fat.” “My BMI is normal, I can eat whatever I want.” But when you have a paunch, you shouldn’t mind your BMI and rather concentrate on healthy eating and regular exercise.
I hope that people, who say they’d eat whatever they want to even out their body’s, are joking, said fat Lopez-Jimenez. Other studies revealed that people who have a large waist-to-hip ratio are at higher risk of various cardiac problems and also
Deep Deadly Fat
A scary reason why belly fat is so deadly is the type of fat that enjoys hanging out in your tummy area and ends up traveling deep inside your body until it finally rests and accumulates around your vital organs.
Then, your liver turns this fat into cholesterol which can find a way to your bloodstream and begin building up along the arteries. An excess amount of cholesterol causes the arteries to start hardening, leading you to stroke or heart attack.
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