Are you at the risk of fat hazard?
Body Building, Guide, HgH, Tips, Weight loss
Over the past two decades, our society has become increasingly preoccupied with both health and thinness. The popularity of gyms, health clubs, and personal trainers, along with extremely selve silhouettes of beauty queens and fashion models, attests to the ideals of fitness and slenderness.
Although no one knows exactly what the health hazards of obesity are, excess weight seems to be implicated in some 3,00,000 deaths a year. More significantly, excess weight prevents a person for extending his or her life, and contributes to many of the diseases of aging: high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, digestive disorders, and gallbladder complications. High weight is correlated with high cholesterol, which in turn is a predictor of cardiovascular problems.
Fat in men tends to settle in the stomach, creating the so-called ‘apple-shape’ where as fat in women often settles around the hips, giving overweight women a ‘pear’ shape. Men seem to be at higher risk for most obesity related conditions than are women.
To determine whether your shape is dangerous to your health, measure your waist at its narrowest point and then measure your hips and buttocks at their widest point. Divide the waist measurement by the hip figure. If your waist-to-hip ratio is higher than 0.8 (for women) or 0.95 (for men), you probably need to lose weight.
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