Does Smaller Size Make You Live longer?

Abdominal fat is embarrassing, let’s face it. And it does put a damper on your confidence. (Hesitating to peel your shirt at the beach lately?)

Now, recent research has found that when it comes to belly fat, vanity should be least of your worries. Too much abdominal fat is very dangerous for health.

If you are a woman and your waist is larger than 35 inches around, the risk of heart disease increases significantly. If your size is smaller than 35 inches, the risk of heart disease is significantly lower.

If you are male, 40 + inches are big, very similar. Get your size below 40 inches, the risk of heart disease significantly.

A research project with the title is “The ratio of waist-to-hop circumference, plasma insulin and glucose intolerance as independent predictors of the HDL2 cholesterol levels in older men” in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that people produce small quantities higher HDL-cholesterol than those with large waist circumference.

HDL cholesterol is the type that have in your body. He takes the LDL (unhealthy) and transported it to the liver where LDL is then processed and excreted from the body.

So, the higher the HDL cholesterol in your body is cleared the more LDL cholesterol from the blood and the less it can reach high levels in your body.

If LDL-cholesterol reaches high levels, he gets the ball rolling in the process that leads to heart disease.

LDL-cholesterol fit into small cracks in the lining of the arteries, after which it is oxidized. Once oxidized, LDL is a more dangerous form of lipid and damage surrounding cells. White blood cells rush to the rescue to try to stop the damage … and this is the beginning of what is a plaque, a swelling of crusts on the wall of the artery. Plaques can calcify and become hard and brittle.

The distribution of plaques along the walls of arteries around the heart is the basic condition for atherosclerosis. If left unchecked, this condition is usually ends with a heart attack.

Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women in Western countries.

By recognizing that “the level of HDL 2-cholesterol inversely correlated with the ratio of the circumference of the waist-hip” This research has a concrete thing we do to improve our health and live longer may be shown.

Lose belly fat and reduce your waist (35 cm or less, for women, 40 inches or less for men) helps your body a high level of HDL cholesterol to produce, reduce LDL cholesterol and the risk of heart attacks.

If you could extend your life a decade or two degreaser and lose a little fat … would you be?

I think it’s a fair trade. Go ahead. Make the change today.