Stomach Buncit Create Vulnerable Broken Bones

KOMPAS.com - Having excess fat in the abdomen especially it is not advised both men and women. Addition will make the body becomes susceptible to degenerative diseases, belly will also make a person susceptible to injury.

A study shows men with obesity and a higher risk of belly fat have weak bones and fractures compared to normal weight men to the extent of fat.

Previous research stated, abdominal fat is bad for women's bones. Furthermore, obese men also found association with fracture risk higher than men who are not obese. Researchers from Harvard also want to know the type of fat in men that affects bone strength reduction.

Miriam Bredella, MD, a radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School said, "We found that obese men with excess belly fat have more brittle bones than a fat man."

Nevertheless, uncertain perutlah fat that causes bone weakness in men. "Men need to take this problem of belly fat as factors that increase the risk of various diseases, in addition to heart disease and diabetes, it is also brittle bones," said Bredella at the annual meeting held by Radiological Society of North America on Thursday (28/11/2012) .

According to Thomas Link, MD, professor of radiology at the University of California, San Francisco, over the years, obesity and body fat are considered augment bone quality. A person who is overweight is believed to have strong bones and low risk of osteoporosis and other bone diseases.

But it turned out to be mistaken belief after it was found that obesity increases the risk of fractures. It is, further links, also related to the results of two previous research that states there is a relationship of body fat with low bone density.

Links are not involved in the study, assessing the findings makes research on obesity and the risk of fractures step further. "This suggests that obese patients with excessive fat around the intestines and many hearts have the strength and quality of bone are lower, and the risk of fractures and osteoporosis," he said.

Bredella stated, this research indicates a growing number of fat deposits in the abdomen, the brittle bone strength in a man. Overall, the team predicts that the risk of obese men with belly exposed osteoporosis and fractures, 25% higher than those who did not distended stomach. In addition, there is a strong correlation between the magnitude of increase in muscle mass and bone strength. While the body mass index (BMI) was not related to bone strength.

So what to do if they already have a bloated stomach overdo?

According Bredella, chubby body shape tends to be so influenced by genetics or heredity. This is precisely the reason for someone to not have to gain weight, so that belly fat can be avoided. There are several forms of activity that a solution for those who have a tendency to get fat.

"Physical exercise such as brisk walking and aerobic exercise can be good for bone strength. Besides lifting weights and up and down stairs can also be beneficial, "he explained.

Source: http://health.kompas.com/read/2012/11/29/1730103/