Be careful! This dangers that lurk distended abdomen

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Obesity aka overweight indeed give a lot of problems in the body. Especially if fat that accumulates which focuses in part the abdomen. Besides not so attractive, the distended abdomen also staked out by many diseases.

Distended abdomen is a term to describe the excess fat contained in the stomach. Abdominal bulge does not give any benefit to the health of the body.

Most of distended abdomen is the impact of excessive weight gain, but there are also other causes, namely weak abdomen muscles, bad body posture, too much drinking alcohol, stress and excess hormones.

Distended stomach can also indicate the presence of gastrointestinal problems (indigestion), such as constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease and gastroparesis, which is a type of nerve damage that affects the stomach.

If fat accumulates in the abdomen in the body, is no longer spread the excess fat throughout the body. Fat that like 'gather' in the stomach is visceral fat or intra-abdominal is fat that associated with high cholesterol, high insulin, high triglycerides, high blood pressure and other problems.

Here are some diseases that lurk the owner of distended abdomen, among others:

1. Decline in lung function

Last year, a team of Finland researchers found that a large waist circumference which associated with decrease in volume and lung function. Over time, the decline in lung function this can cause constriction of the airways and chronic lung diseases such as asthma in the end.

2. Artery degeneration

Another study in 2012 found a significant association between abdominal obesity and high incidence of arthrosclerosis and arterial stiffness. The researchers studied individuals with abdominal obesity (distended abdomen) and general obesity, as well as healthy individuals, and found that for each increase of 0.1 in the ratio of waist circumference, increasingly problems in the arteries deteriorates.

This tendency is mainly occurs in people with excess abdominal fat. Degeneration of the arteries can lead to stroke, and various heart diseases.

3.  Blood sugar disturbed

Visceral fat, the fat that are found in the distended abdomen, produces a number of hormones that can wreak havoc on the metabolism system. This hormone can trigger changes in insulin receptors in the body, which makes insulin starts to become less effective in helping regulate blood sugar. It is, of course one of the main causes of diabetes.

4. Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

What happens in the intestine can have a big effect on the brain. A study in 2010 found that the waist-hip ratio, as well as the presence of abdominal visceral fat, is associated with low brain volume.

Low brain volume, in turn, has been associated with dementia (senile) general and can also be a contributing factor in the Alzheimer's disease.

5. High cholesterol

Visceral fat can change into free fatty acids by the body, which results in the production of LDL (also known as bad cholesterol) and triglycerides. In addition, free fatty acids also reduce the body's levels of HDL (also known as good cholesterol).

Along with abdominal obesity relationship with the artery degeneration, excess cholesterol which associated with belly fat is a perfect storm for heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke.