The risk of obesity depends largely on the location of fat. The biggest impact is that the heart is what accumulates in the abdomen.

Patients with increased abdominal fat presented a significant increase in risk of cardiovascular disease. So maintaining weight within reasonable limits is very important for the normal functioning of the heart, blood vessels, metabolism, bones and all organs of our body.

Depending on where you focus, we can distinguish between two types of obesity:

* Obesity peripheral or gynoid. Fat on buttocks, thighs and arms.
* Central obesity, abdominal or android. Fat on the abdomen.

What is the normal waist circumference?

The abdominal circumference is an anthropometric measure that helps determine the fat in your body. The woman is 88 centimeters and in man, 102 cm. If an overweight person with waist circumference is less than the values mentioned peripheral is considered obese, while speaking of central obesity when waist circumference is greater.

To measure waist circumference, you should stand up, then blow, and then around your abdomen with a tape measure up to the navel. With this measure, you can use our calculator to find out what your waist-hip ratio.

This method allows us to obtain the distribution of body fat in our body, ensuring that excess weight is given by an excessive accumulation of fat (when talking of obesity) and not by other causes such as muscle hypertrophy could be the retention or fluids.

Abdominal or central obesity (or android) has worse consequences for metabolism, as it encourages the development of diabetes and gout. Those who suffer are much more likely to accumulate fat in the vital organs, and this favors the onset of cardiovascular disease.

Hypertension is 2.5 times more common in obese than in normal weight people.

Most obese people are obese type android (abdominal), and that puts them as a group at higher risk of cardiovascular disease.

A heart-healthy diet is absolutely necessary, as is the practice of regular, moderate exercise. And, eventually taking surgical solutions, the gastric balloon is a technique that gives excellent results.