What is belly fat?
Belly fat, which is also called central obesity or abdominal obesity, is a major problem nowadays.
In scientific language, this fat is also called Adipose Tissue.
What are the benefits of fat (Adipose tissue) to our body?
Fat plays a very prominent role in the human body; its major benefits are as follows…
- This fat protects the body's internal organs and prevents them from getting hurt during any shock.
- Due to this fat, the body's internal organs can bear too high or too low a temperature.
- Scientists consider this fat is an endocrine organ that makes many types of hormones beneficial to the body, so it is essential to have this fat in the human body in normal amounts.
Types of belly fat…
The fat stored in the body is mainly of two types such as…
1- Visceral Fat…
This is the fat deposited around the body's internal organs like the liver or stomach or the kidney or the spleen or the intestines; this type of fat is complicated to reduce. It is called visceral fat.
2- Subcutaneous Fat…
It is mainly the fat deposited under the skin, due to which accumulation in excess amount gradually increases the size of the belly.
This increased size is also called the enlargement of the belly. It can be reduced with the help of many measures like diet and proper exercise.
Excessive belly fat hazards to the body…
Whatever the type of fat, if it starts accumulating inside the human body in more quantity than normal, then many types of damages occur to the human body such as…
Increased metabolic risk factors…
The accumulation of excess fat in the human body increases the risk of metabolic disorders; the most prominent of such disorders is diabetes.
Insulin resistance…
The accumulation of excess fat also creates the problem of insulin resistance. It increases it further, due to which the chances of getting many types of diseases like heart disease, diabetes, fatty liver, high cholesterol increases significantly.
Inflammation…
An excessive amount of visceral fat causes inflammation in many organs inside the body, due to which inflammatory markers like CRP, ESR are raised.
Overall Mortality…
Due to excessive accumulation of visceral fat inside the body, the average age of any person starts decreasing than normal; this is because many types of diseases are caused by excessive fat.
Regardless of the type of fat, excessive increase increases the risk of cardio-metabolic disease potential in the human body. Many types of diseases start to affect the human body.
What are the top 7 reasons for the increase in belly fat?
It is like this…
1- Consumption of a high-calorie diet (calorie surplus diet)…
Consuming a calorie-rich diet over what a normal human needs to function throughout the day converts these unnecessary calories into fat. It starts accumulating inside the belly, due to which the belly starts increasing.
A high-calorie diet causes belly fat.
For example, if a person needs 2000 calories to work for the whole day and that person takes 2700 calories from the diet in the whole day, then in this way he takes 700 calories as surplus, it will be like this for 10 consecutive days by doing 700 × 10 = 7000 calories in his body is accumulated unnecessarily, which increases the weight of about one kilogram of body, all these calories are converted into fat.
Therefore, it is essential to consume a low-calorie diet to reduce belly fat. To know how many calories a person needs in a whole day, it can be estimated by calculating his Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) and searching it on Google to know the calorie value of each diet.
2- Decreased metabolism…
As the age of any person increases, the metabolism starts to decrease in his body. The accumulation of fat inside the body also increases due to slower metabolism, and more fat accumulates in women compared to men.
For this reason, with increasing age, if the diet is not taken properly, then along with increasing belly in women, their waist size increases much more than that of men.
Due to the high metabolic rate or metabolism in young children, obesity does not occur even after consuming large amounts of calories.
3- The tendency of fat to accumulate more on specific parts…
Scientific research has found that as fat increases in the body, this fat gets deposited in different ways on different parts of the human body; it is also called body fat distribution.
For example, the accumulation of fat is more on the abdominal part than other body parts. Due to this, the belly starts increasing.
In women, especially after menopause, more fat is deposited on the abdominal area and waist due to the decrease in estrogen hormone.
4- Genetic reasons…
One of the main reasons for increasing belly fat is also genetics. It has been seen that it is natural for those people whose parents or grandparents have belly fat; it is tough to reduce the increased belly fat in such individuals.
Scientists also associate genetic causes with many reasons related to the external environment; there is also a theory called Thrifty Genotype Hypothesis.
According to this theory, thousands of years ago, when there was a lot of food shortage, at that time when men used to get food in any form, then men used to consume that food in excess quantity, due to which the problem of central obesity or belly fat starts.
Large amounts of food were consumed because the food was not available again for several days, so the food was stored in the body as a reserve.
5- Lack of Leptin hormone…
Many types of hormones also affect the accumulation of excessive fat in the human body, such as Leptin; this hormone provides the satisfaction of filling the stomach after consuming the diet.
Therefore, due to the lack of this hormone for any reason, a person does not have the satisfaction of filling the stomach while eating. The person consumes more food, due to which the problem of central obesity or belly fat starts to increase.
6- Mental stress…
According to scientific research, every day's mental stress also increases central obesity or belly fat; the main reason for this is the level of cortisol hormone increasing due to mental stress; the higher the mental stress, the more the level of cortisol hormone.
Stress increases the Cortisol hormone
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Due to which the accumulation of fat starts increasing in the abdominal area. This condition also works in the reverse order, like if a person has obesity, then due to that, the level of cortisol hormone also starts increasing.
An increase in the level of cortisol hormone due to any reason is the main reason for increasing central obesity or belly fat.
For example, the problem of increasing obesity is seen more in the following mental disorders such as…
- Bipolar disorder
- Schizophrenia
Apart from this, weight gain is more due to antidepressants, antipsychotic medicines used in mental disorders; it has been found in many types of scientific research.
Apart from this, whenever a person is in a state of excessive stress, at that time, that person's tendency is more towards comfort food.
Because of which he consumes a high-carbohydrate or high-fat diet such as burgers, pizza, or other processed food in excessive amounts, central obesity or belly starts increasing.
7- Special types of medicines…
Certain types of medicines, such as anti-seizure medicines used in epileptic seizures (Anticonvulsants- Oxetol).
Antidepressants, Antipsychotic medicines used in mental diseases.
Additionally, corticosteroids used in skin or respiratory diseases (Wysolone, Omnacortil, etc.) or certain medicines used in the treatment of diabetes, such as Insulin, Pioglitazone, can cause central obesity or weight gain due to its prolonged use.
Conclusion…
Although there are many reasons for increasing central obesity or belly fat, the most important top 7 reasons have been described above. Please read it carefully and avoid these as possible to get a well-shaped belly.
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