Losing Weight Can Improve Health

Your health is very important to you and allowing it to suffer because of bad diet and lifestyle choices is foolish, especially when you consider the potential consequences.

Allowing yourself to become overweight or even obese comes with a very risky set of baggage that you may not be too happy about once you realize what it consists of!

A lot of overweight people that want to get back in shape will try to do something about it by going on a diet of some description. This is a good start, even if you opt for a commercial program like Jenny Craig or a Nutrisystem diet plan, for example, it is a step in the right direction.

There are many really good reasons for losing weight for better health, but probably the most important of all of them is all about protecting that most vital of your organs, your heart!

Look After Your Heart

When you are overweight your body stores a lot of excess fat and most people don’t really give it too much thought after the fact that it can look unsightly and it means you can’t get into smaller sized clothes.

However, when you think that those fat cells are living cells that your body has to tend to by supplying them with blood, then you can see that the more you have, the harder the heart has to work to pump the blood around your bloated body!

Cholesterol Levels

This in itself is not so much of a hardship as your heart is extremely strong and is capable of managing the extra flow.

However, problems arise in relation to being overweight where you may also have greater levels of bad LDL cholesterol flowing through that blood along with high levels of triglycerides. And these can cause more problems for your heart.

The increased flow that it has to cope with is impaired by the presence of these fats in your bloodstream and it is these that cause your arteries to clog up. If the blockage happens near to the heart itself, then the risk of cardiovascular disease increases greatly and if the blockage moves into the heart itself, a coronary (heart attack) may result.

Weight Problems

There are other health problems associated with being overweight, especially when a bad diet is the cause.

Eating foods and drinking drinks such as soda containing high levels of sugar (sucrose and fructose) causes the knock-on effect of extreme rushes of glucose in the bloodstream. This the body counters with an equally extreme rush of insulin to compensate.

The insulin carries the excess sugars out of the bloodstream to be processed by the body (in the liver) into fat which is then stored in those much maligned fat cells. Worse is the favored resting place of that excess fat is around the abdomen, often referred to as “belly fat” or more correctly, visceral fat.

Insulin Resistance

Having to cope with almost constant high blood sugars and equally constant high levels of insulin brings about arguably the most damaging condition related to excess sugar consumption.

The body slowly, over time, becomes more and more resistant to the action of insulin to provide the cells with the nutrients they need. The result is insulin resistance which is the root cause of so many medical conditions that afflict so many people these days.

This problem is the main cause that leads to the development of type 2 diabetes. As well as being the cause of a whole host of what is believed by most as weight-related conditions.

Conclusion

So much of this is best avoided by being careful about what you eat and drink and if you're on a diet, stick to it! If you are overweight, then consider losing weight as a matter of importance.

So you see it really pays to not be overweight and to be very aware of how your body weight can affect your health in many ways. Keeping yourself fit and at your correct weight with a healthy diet is more important than many realize but is something that should be considered very seriously.

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Posted on Sun, 11 Apr 2021 in health | 0 Comments