Lean people are also at risk for metabolic and cardiovascular diseases

People who consider themselves fit – the skinny with a belly, who sees no health problems – are at risk of heart and metabolic diseases due to the presence of fat in the abdomen

Led by Vitor Valenti, professor at Unesp de Marília (SP), the study was completed. Men aged 18 to 30 who considered themselves physically active were not overweight or had a history of metabolic (such as diabetes) or cardiovascular disease.

Scientists have found that people with a higher size-to-size ratio have lower resilience. post-exercise and slower response of autonomic nervous system mechanisms badociated with cardiovascular disease

It was already known that people with excess fat in the abdomen had an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The novelty of the study was to dissociate this abdominal accumulation of overweight and to show that the relationship between the measurement of waist circumference and the size of an individual is in itself an indicator of risk.

The size measurement is taken on the last rib. . And the calculation is done by dividing the waist by the size of the person. Until now, a person with scores of up to 0.5 was considered healthy. The study says the results of 0.45 to 0.5 are risky, says Valenti.

The Unesp group badyzed 52 men with a body mbad index (BMI) between 20 and 25, which is within the normal range. . Everyone said that they had regular physical activity, but that they did not have intensity – for example, a football match on the weekends.

– For those who have located fat in the belly and who do not exercise regularly, they play football only at the end of the year. This weekly study can be dangerous because the body does not have a good ability to react to sudden and excessive stress, "said Valenti, whose study was conducted in partnership with scientists from Oxford Brookes University in England as part of a project supported by Fapesp.

The height-to-size ratio is more sensitive than BMI because very general.The fat found in the abdomen is considered the worst of all forms of adiposity, as it accumulates around organs and has metabolic activity, releases fatty acids into the viscera and damages cells, and is badociated with cancer, metabolic and cardiovascular diseases, and To the dementia.