Reduce waist circumference to protect against serious illnesses

How to reduce waist circumference to protect against serious diseases

Waist circumference is a major indicator of health . The bigger it is, the greater the risk of contracting serious illnesses. However, the average French man aged 30 to 39 measures 1.74 m for a waist circumference of 92.3 cm and is dangerously close to the risk profile. It's time for him to understand that wanting to lose belly and refine his size is a way to protect himself healthily before being a simple aesthetic concern. It is therefore important to know how to measure it well and to apply the right method, sport and not liposuction , to lose it and avoid getting sick.

• Losing the waistline is a vital issue
• Sport or liposuction?
• How to measure the waist circumference?
• Diet tips to lose your waistline
• LOSE WEIGHT LOCALLY

Losing the waistline is a vital issue

Losing your waistline, if it exceeds 110 cm for men and 90 cm for women, can become a matter of life or death because the health risks are great. For a woman, a waist circumference of 70 cm is already the first threshold not to be exceeded. Waist circumference is indeed a major index of mortality risk, more important than the body mass index which assesses the relationship between weight and height. The body mass index does not take into account the distribution of fat in the body.

Wanting a flat stomach is a matter of health before being a matter of aesthetics because the fat most harmful to health is abdominal fat , more precisely intra-abdominal fat, that is to say fixed fat on the organs and viscera of the abdominal cavity.

This type of fat, which easily clogs blood through the portal vein, is associated with a higher risk of developing high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes . The accumulation of fat in the belly, the one that is between the organs, disrupts the metabolism of fats and sugar. It is for this reason that doctors are recommended to measure the waist circumference of their patients when they are overweight.

The risk of having cardiovascular disease, hypertension or diabetes directly depends on the size of our waistline. For example, a waist circumference of 70 cm indicates a low risk for a woman and very low for a man.

Sport or liposuction?

Engaging in physical activity represents a medium-term solution that is slower than choosing liposuction, but it is also a more effective solution for reducing the fat mass index because liposuction only faminuers the pe or c' is especially the deep fat that must be dislodged. The physical exercise used as a means of losing weight and getting thinner attacks all the abdominal fat.

What sport to lose weight? It is enough to do endurance exercises (running at a slow pace alternated with walking) for 3 sessions of 45 minutes per week for 12 months to reduce your intra-abdominal fat by more than 15%. People in poor physical condition should start by following the running training plan for beginners from the enseignement-sportif.fr website, the first week of which is presented below.

How to measure the waist circumference?

Waist circumference should be measured at the narrowest part of the torso, located halfway between the lower part of the ribs (at the bottom of the last rib) and the iliac crest (the upper part of the pelvic bone), in a person standing, with their feet about 25 to 30 cm apart. The waist circumference is measured with a tape at the end of an expiration, without exerting pressure on the skin.