Researchers have
found waist size to be more useful than BMI in predicting diabetes. Obesity is
a well-known risk factor for diabetes, but these findings will help identify
high-risk individuals who—though not obese—are still vulnerable to the
condition because of large amounts of midsection fat.
BMI is a ratio
of an individual’s height to weight.
This system has been under question as it fails to distinguish muscle
from body fat and most importantly where the fat is located in the body. Waist circumference measures the amount of
belly fat and how it is distributed throughout the body.
Excess Belly Fat & Organs
Belly fat is a
direct reflection of the amount of fat surrounding the vital organs. Excess internal fat will put tremendous
pressure on your stomach, pancreas and intestines and other organs. Your organs
and glands are responsible for producing hormones. The added pressure from
belly fat causes hormonal imbalances and deficiencies found in diabetes and
many other health conditions.
Losing belly fat
is not as easy as it sounds. Many people
think they just have to stop eating fried foods, decrease the amount they eat
and start exercising. It’s not that easy
when hormonal imbalances are involved.
How to Lose Belly Fat
Simply starting
a diet and exercise program will not necessarily rid you of belly fat. However, a similar study demonstrated that
the risk of prediabetes going into diabetes can be lowered by up to 60 percent
when applying the right programs.
Researchers from
the School of Medical Sciences at the University of New South Wales say when
people slim down through diet and exercise, fat around the organs will
disappear twice as fast in comparison to other bodily fat.
New research has
demonstrated that a 20-minute workout consisting of 8 seconds of high intensity
exercise, followed by 12 seconds of relative recovery resulted in more fat loss
than 40 minutes of continuous exercise. This is excellent news as
high-intensity, short-duration exercise does not require fancy equipment, expensive
gym memberships or even a lot of time.
In the Journal
of Obesity, researchers found that obese men performing one hour of high-intensity,
short-duration experienced the same physical benefits as those who jogged for
seven hours. Just 20 minutes of high-intensity exercise, three times a week, is
all that is needed to achieve significant weight loss around the belly.
The results of
the published study show that after a 12-week trial the participants in the
study lost on average 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds), 17 percent of which was fat
around the organs.
Several ideas go
through a person’s mind when they think of exercise. Generally, none of those
ideas are positive. It’s expensive, it
hurts, it’s time-consuming and, most commonly, I don’t know how to do it
properly. With as little as three days
per week and 20 minutes of total exercise you can cut your belly and diabetes
risk significantly.
Dr. Cory Couillard is an international healthcare speaker and columnist for numerous newspapers, magazines, websites and publications throughout the world. He works in collaboration with the World Health Organization's goals of disease prevention and global healthcare education. Views do not necessarily reflect endorsement.
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