What is a local obesity
Can be observed in daily life, some people weigh when compared with normal weight overweight does not seem to worry, when you see them protruding belly, fat buttocks, the often involuntarily take up their fat heart. This is the local obesity, is also troubled by a nightmare for many people.
Local obesity, and body fat difference is that obese patients is not necessarily a local body obesity, as if from behind a slim body is a person, may also have an unpleasant impression that looked from the side of the "beer belly . " Local obesity weight generally remained at just over standard body weight may also be hovering between the level of obesity and overweight range. The most frequent site of local obesity is the body abdomen and thighs.
How to determine whether there is local obesity?
Determine whether they suffer from the local obesity is simple, commonly used in two ways:
One is when you are upright (similar to the stand at attention position) when the gaze, as if the sight is blocked can not see their toes when the abdomen, indicating that you have a local obesity.
Another way is when you lie supine on the bed when it comes to belly navel as the center put a ruler, or put any object can be a relatively straight, then if the ruler or the object to be support from the belly, there one or both ends can not contact with the skin, also shows that you have a local obesity.
Clinical method of determination of local body fat
Waist circumference, hip circumference and waist-hip ratio: This is an operation by readers to their own method of vertical subjects standing, feet apart 25-30 cm so that the weight evenly distributed, taking axillary line (draw a straight line in the middle of the armpit). rib and the iliac crest (lateral mode to be the lower abdomen, protruding bone) to measure the midpoint of abdominal circumference (ie, waist circumference). Hip is the largest hip circumference.
Waist circumference greater than 90 cm (men) or 85 cm (women) were obese. Normal waist-hip ratio of less than 09 (men) or 08 (female). Than the ratio of central obesity, also known as intra-abdominal or visceral fat type in China, although the small number of high BMI values, a single abnormal distribution of localized fat deposits or the number is quite large, specifically, is a chunky type , apple-shaped people is particularly high. This phenomenon has attracted the attention of experts.
Ultrasound (mainly B-): B Super fat thickness of various parts of the measurement, a clear diagnosis of obesity is visceral fat type obesity or subcutaneous. Can be observed in the course of treatment quality; effects were observed. In addition, skinfold thickness measurement, CT and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one way to measure fat thickness, but rarely used.
Shows that, in order to know whether obesity alone can not take it for granted, and the need for strict scientific indicators.
Local health impact of obesity on you
Although the overall situation, the local impact of obesity on human health may be less than whole body obesity. However, obese patients with localized fat accumulates mainly in the abdomen and thigh on both sides, perhaps too close to these areas causes the liver, its nature and the accumulation of fat in other parts of the body is slightly different.
They are easy to form free fatty acids into the blood, and with the blood into the liver. When the molecules of free fatty acids in the liver over time, they will be transformed into low-density lipoprotein, and with the blood flow to the rest of the body. The low-density lipoprotein is a kind of health "harmful" lipoprotein, low-density lipoprotein levels increased when the time, the body suffering from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease risk is significantly increased. So when you have a potbellied, "the general belly" or "beer belly" when you are not to bring blessing, but dangerous....