Why you Need a 35 inch Waistline

There has been a magic number that has recently been going round in the health circles, as to why you need to have a 35 inch waist, having a large abdomen is not a beneficial thing to have as far as your health is concerned. According to some research that was done in Tufts University Boston, they say that in order to be safe with your health you need to have a waist size that is 35 inches for women and 37 for men.

This is the number that is critical to knowing whether or not you may have health problems later on in your life, the general problem with having a fat belly is you get a buildup of something called visceral fat, the problem with this sort of fat is it tends to bind itself to, your liver and heart organs which is not good news.

The result of this being that it creates more the bad fat which is known as LDL cholesterol, another knock-on side-effect of this is it tends to interfere with the production of insulin, which if if you don’t do something about it then you for more likely to contract diabetes.

Other research that has come to light has also suggested that there may be connections with having a large abdomen and Alzheimer’s disease, the upside of this is researchers have found that once you start to exercise quite frequently.

And start to lose weight the fat deposits around your body can start to diminish by a rough figure of 32 percent, this sort of fat which also can be known as adipose fat, tends to be brown in colour and is something really that you need to get rid of in order to become healthier.

In order to help yourself more from adding to this particular problem make sure that you eat unrefined carbohydrates, and eat foods that have a low glycaemic rating these foods tend to be broken down rather more slowly than their counterparts.

Examples of low glycaemic foods are wholemeal bread I would suggest using bread that is very high in fibre go for whole weeks, the problem with white bread is that it can be full of sugar because it is made with a different type of flour. Things like broccoli, peppers, peas, all good examples of low glycaemic foods the more you can eat of these the better, in research that was done at Tufts University they did some tests on participants.

And put them on a fibre rich carbohydrate diet which is a lot better than a really high carbohydrate diet, they ate things like wholegrain breakfast cereals, brown rice, wholemeal pitta bread and ate plenty of fruit and vegetables.

Those who ate the low glycaemic high carbohydrate foods but were high in fibre, had a letter stomach than their counterparts whom were eating the high glycaemic carbohydrate foods. It was found that the women who ate the lower glycaemic foods also reduced their overall body mass index.

What does drinking beer do well surprisingly enough a study of Czechoslovakian men, who drank lots of beer were found to have no increase in there abdomen size despite the fact that they were drinking a lot of beer.

So it seems that there is something to eating low glycaemic foods interestingly enough I must say that, from my own actual experiences I did try myself switching to a low glycaemic diet and it didn’t work for me so there must be something in it.

This has now given me validation that it does actually work the only other things to draw from this are, make sure that you keep your dairy products in check and use low-fat substitutes where you can, just recently I have started myself trying cottage cheese.

I have never tried it before but I must say I quite enjoy it at one time it was something that would never even consider eating but I suppose overtime what tends to happen with your dietary habits is that you tend to stick to what you know instead of eating other foods.

An example of this is from my own experience is I never used to eat, sweet potatoes even though I have not been eating them just recently when I was I really enjoyed eating them.

There are so many food choices around these days but the general overall problem is that we get so used to going to supermarkets and buying prepacked frozen foods that it becomes habitable shopping, how often do you actually tend to think about what foods you are actually buying.

Do you actually plan what you’re going to buy or do you just remember from memory, see the general overall way of doing this kind of shopping I tend to think is you’re more less shopping on autopilot. And it could be quite easily tempting to buy things that you don’t need, offers like buy one get one free very tempting.

Sometimes we don’t tend to realise that the primitive part of our brains which is all to do with survival works in reverse logic sometimes and makes us do things which we should necessarily be doing.

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