How long ago was the last time you measured your waist size? If you didn’t know, we tell you: this parameter can tell a lot regarding the state of health. For women, a waist measurement of more than 88 cm is considered dangerous, for men – 102 cm. Too large a waist is a symptom of a critically large amount of abdominal or visceral fat.
As gastroenterologist Samuel Klein, director of geriatrics and nutrition at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, points out, visceral fat can coat your internal organs and dangle from your colon like an apron, causing your stomach to bulge. Visceral fat increases the risk of hypertension, diabetes, heart and vascular disease, and fatty liver disease.
How to understand that there is too much fat? Edition lists five features.