Potbelly Increase Risk of Blindness

Have fat deposits in the abdominal area not only damage the aesthetics of the body, but far more serious health hazard. Besides increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease, has a distended stomach also increases the risk of blindness. The collected fat in the abdominal area will release the hormone estrogen throughout the body. Studies conducted by researchers at the University of Melbourne shows, the release of these hormones can trigger inflammation of blood vessels behind the eye.

The danger is demonstrated in this study targeting the potbellied man. Hazard risk is lower in women because women have been producing the hormone estrogen with high levels throughout his life. This makes her not so sensitive to the release of the hormone estrogen from fat in the abdomen.

The study was conducted by monitoring changes in waist size over 21 thousand men and women aged 40 to 69 years. Observations over the years also records the number of participants who developed symptoms of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or loss of vision as you age.

The study shows, the ratio of healthy to the waist than hip size is 0.95. Increased ratio of 0.1 increases the risk of AMD in men by 75 percent. "Our study underlines that the risk of developing AMD's belly."

For that, immediately remove dangerous fat on your stomach with three easy steps.

1. Balanced nutrition
Eat foods with balanced nutrition. Having a healthy diet is the first step to eliminate the fat on your stomach. Practice portion control foods. Make sure your diet contains a balanced and healthy nutrients including carbohydrates, proteins and good fats. Consumption of whole grains also regularly because it can help eliminate belly fat.

2. Cardio exercise
If you want to look slim tummy, do cardio exercise every day on a regular basis. This is a mandatory exercise to lose belly fat. Do cardio exercise gradually until it reaches a high intensity like spinning, interval training, and ran.

3. Forming part of the body
Limit yourself to exercise build muscle belly, because it is not effective to eliminate belly fat. Focus exercises for upper body form a whole and back, because it will make the body more visible grooves. This can make you look more svelte and sexy. And, not only lose abdominal fat, the muscles around the stomach was established.