Fat is not always synonymous with healthy let alone prosper. Look at some Indonesian celebrities are not long-lived due to overweight or obese. Even the Japanese sumo wrestler whose body fat, she’s hardly one to 40 years. Horrible is not it?
Obesity increases the risk of someone actually getting attacked by various diseases and health disorders on the body. Want to know what diseases are a threat to the fat guy? The following list
1. Heart disease and high blood pressure (hypertension)
Did you know, body fat makes the heart work extra hard to pump blood throughout the body tissues. When the ability of the heart is beyond the capabilities it happens from heart failure. Signs, and incidence of shortness of breath swelling of the legs. Also, the body fat, blood vessels may be narrowed due to deposition of fat pinching. Just imagine, are obese also suffer from hypertension. So, the thickening of the heart chamber walls together with the lack of oxygen. These conditions make the arrival of heart failure comes more quickly.
2. Disturbance of lung function
Deposition of fat in the body fat can depress the respiratory tract. This can cause the occurrence, stop breathing during sleep (sleep apnea). Difficulties like this for long can also cause heart failure and lead to death.
3. Diabetes and cholesterol
Overweight or obesity Can cause insulin on patients with dysfunction, caused by fat people vulnerable to diabetes. Impaired insulin function was also lead to disturbances of fat metabolism. Thereby increasing total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol or the bad cholesterol and triglycerides. And decreasing levels of HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol). Accompanied by rising levels of bad cholesterol, decrease good cholesterol levels can lead to the formation of crust in the blood vessels (atherosclerosis). Atherosclerosis is what makes the diameter of blood vessels, causing coronary heart disease and stroke.
4. Joint disorders
Obesity makes the joints become heavy work. Because the function of the joints themselves are as a buffer body. No wonder if fat people are always complaining about joint pain that never healed. If allowed, then the big one will suffer from inflammation of the joints or osteoarthritis. Among other symptoms, pain in the joints, followed by swelling. Stiff joints can also be driven. The condition is most severe patients could not walk anymore.
5. Disruption of hormonal systems
Overweight or obesity was also affecting the body’s hormonal system. In girls, obesity causes the first menstruation came early. In adult women, obesity can cause interference with hormonal balance and menstrual cycle disturbances. The results also indicated, in women who had experienced menopause, obesity increases the risk of uterine cancer (endometrial) and cancer.