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Too much fat instead of healthy body mass - from then overweight can be dangerous
Extreme overweight, however, leads to multiple complaints: problems with the circulation, joint wear, lack of exercise and permanent diseases of liver and heart are some consequences.
Not primarily the overweight, but the distribution of fat endangers the health (Tracy Kind / fotolia.com) A lot of fat
We have subcutaneous fat, organ fat, storage fat, muscle fat, abdominal fat. Some body fat is vital, some of it questionable. For example, the fat on the stomach: If it is deep in the stomach, it is called visceral fat, promotes vascular calcification, infections and high blood pressure.
Brown and white fat cells
Not the amount of fat alone is the problem, it is also essential how the fat spreads throughout the body.
In the so-called normal weight, about 12% of adult body weight consists of fat cells, and in babies the proportion is much higher. In addition, they have more brown than white fat cells, because the browns help to regulate the temperature.
Fat is necessary
Adults, however, have more white than brown fat cells. These store energy in fat pads. In evolution, this was extremely useful: even animals put on fat storage to survive the lean times; Bears or hedgehogs survive winter hibernation with fat eaten in the summer.
The fat deposits not only provide us with energy during starvation times; they also form hormones, they neutralize toxins and store vitamins.
Fat as a pressure pad
The insulating grease in the hypodermis absorbs injuries and stores heat. It even serves as an "insole", namely under the heel. Only with this upholstery can we go.
Also on the butt it looks like a pillow. Without fat, the eyeball would harden and our internal organs would be vulnerable to viruses, bacteria and injuries.
Fat and nerves
Without fat, our cells could not communicate because their membranes consist essentially of fatty acids. These provide for the metabolism, transport hormones and enzymes and "smear" the nerve tracts.
Fat and fertility
The less fat a woman has in her body, the less fertile she is. If there are hardly any fat reserves, ovulation will cease - a necessity of evolution. Because without fats, the mother body can not feed the embryo.
Lots of fat, little exercise
In hunter-gatherer societies, and also in the starvation diets of pre-industrial agriculture, either little fat could accumulate, or the energy stored as fat was quickly used up.
Computer Potatoes in the Stone Age body
In modern societies, however, this evolutionary adaptation is annoying to many, and sometimes becomes a problem. Working on the computer consumes a minimum of the energy that hunters and collectors of the Stone Age or 19th century peasants consumed in everyday life.
Excess fat
So we are constantly feeding more than enough fats, carbohydrates and proteins without putting that energy into practice. The body reacts as usual: It first stores the fat under the skin. However, if the depots there are full, then the organism restores the fat elsewhere: Excess fat accumulates in the liver, heart, muscles or pancreas. How and if the body collects the fat in the organs varies from person to person.
Fat outsourcing through smoking
Smoking and aging promote outgrowing fat, while estrogen supports the formation of fat under the skin. Therefore, women have fat pads on the butt and thighs, but men in the "beer belly".
Apple and pear bellies
But beware: The "apple belly", so the reminiscent of a pregnant women rounding of men from the middle age can be both outsourced and subcutaneous fat.
The "pear figure", however, so a slender upper body and a fat buttocks with tight thighs, however, consists only of subcutaneous fat.
Tailenumfang shows outsourced grease
Outsourced fat does not show up on a body mass index, but on the waist circumference.
health problems
If this waist circumference exceeds 94 cm for men and 80 cm for women, it is above average, and at 102 cm for men and 88 cm for women, the risk of developing diabetes, cardiovascular complaints and liver diseases increases, as does the risk of mortality.
Fat islands also at normal weight
The outsourced fat has nothing to do with extreme overweight, not even at all overweight. Even people with normal weight sometimes store due to a genetic attachment excessively fat in places of the body where it has no business.
Training helps
In contrast to the often hopeless attempts to push the body mass index down through changing diets or extreme sports, training against outsourced fats has proven successful.
How do you get rid of the fat pads?
Who suffers under the term, ectopic, fat, does not have to starve from belly fat to six pack. Regular exercise, abstinence from alcohol and nicotine, and a diet high in fruits and vegetables will first affect the "superfluous" fats.
Helping people help themselves
The subcutaneous fat is the "iron reserve" for the body, and it lasts until it is consumed by it. The outsourced fats, however, burn before. Exercise and healthy eating also strengthen the body's defense and help the body to self-help, because the immune system can reduce fat deposits, if it works. (Dr. Utz Anhalt)