Muffin Health Risks
The medical term for a muffin top is abdominal obesity, or central obesity. Carrying extra weight around your waist can increase your risk for some serious health problems. These include:
- Heart Disease
Heart Disease is the number 1 killer of adults in the USA, England, Canada and Wales. There are several types of heart disease, including Coronary Heart Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Failure, and Inflammatory Heart Disease. All of these have symptoms of one or more parts of the heart not functioning properly, whether the valves, the arteries, or the actual heart chambers themselves. Heart disease generally comes from poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle.
- Hypertension
Hypertension is the official term for high blood pressure. Some of the causes of high blood pressure are smoking, eating too much salt or sugar and high stress. Some of the risk factors associated with high blood pressure include strokes, heart attacks, heart failure, aneurysms, and chronic renal failures.
- Insulin Resistance
Insulin resistance occurs when the human body no longer sustains a regular reaction to insulin. Insulin is a chemical in the body that helps to process sugar and glucose from your foods. If you have insulin resistance, you could suffer from fatigue, bloating, brain fogs and even depression.
- Diabetes
Diabetes is a condition in which your body stops responding to or doesn’t make enough insulin. Diabetes can be inherited in your genes, or it can develop because of poor food choices. Diabetes is treatable, but it can have very serious medical complications, including gangrene, a failed pancreas, blindness and coma.
If you make poor food choices and have a sedentary lifestyle, then you are more likely to suffer from central obesity and you run a higher risk of contracting the health disorders associated with it. Is the muffin REALLY worth the illness?!