How ‘Pote Belly’ went to the silent murder from the status symbol

Indian pot abdomen – once a tab of prosperity, indifference and aging, has long been the target of satire and social commentary.

He signaled comfort or consent in the literature; The films became a short video for a lazy officer, greedy pressure or corruption police. Cartoons made fun of politicians. In the village parameters, one time was the status symbol – “This man is eating well.”

However, what once was fired or even mentioned, now increases alarm calls. The obesity crisis in India is a gauge – and seemingly harmless pot can be a greater soul than we think of the abdomen.

India, in 2021, secondary or obese adults affected by 180 million, only behind China. One New Lancet Research This number warns that until 2050 can be collected from 450 million, one-third of the country’s projected population.

In a global scale, more than half of all adults and children are expected to face the same fate in one third.

In the center of this issue in India, the containers are exposed to belly or medical terms.

The form of obesity applies to the accumulation of oil excess oil around the abdomen and the doctors say more than a cosmetic concern. As 1990, research has shown a clear connection between the abdominal oil and chronic conditions, such as 2 types of diabetes and heart disease.

Obesity is not just the abdomen. Depending on the oil distribution, it appears in different patterns: peripheral obesity affects hips, thighs and hips, and obesity obesity includes the spread of the body more evenly.

Numbers on belly fat in India are already concerned. According to the latest national family health research (NFHS-5) – for the first time, the waist and hip sizes are measured – about 40% of women and 12% of men There is abdominal obesity in India.

The abdominal obesity based in India is 90 cm (35 inches) for men, 80 cm (31 inches) for men. Among the age of 30 and 49 years old already shows an already already already a sign. It was found that Urban populations were more affected than villagers, the high waist or waist hip ratios arising as a waist red flag.

So why are the abdominal oil so great?

One reason is an insulin resistance – said that the body responds to the insulin correctly and responds to the hormone that helps to adjust the blood sugar. The abdominal oil violates that the body is using insulin and driving blood sugar.

Work They found South Asians, including Indians, and the same body mass index tends to body fat than the White Caucasians. (BMI is a simple measure of body fat based on one’s height of one person.)

This is not how much fat – it goes. In the southern Asians, the oil tends to be collected under the body and skin, but it is not always deep in the abdomen, such as vireral fat.

Although South Asians have less harmful deep-abdominal oil around the organs such as the liver and pancreas, the research shows the struggle for larger, less efficient oil cells. As a result, the vital organs regulating excessive fat metabolism – as a liver and pancreas – are poured into vital organs that increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease.

Scientists still do not fully understand the biological reasons for fat distribution samples. Although numerous genetic research was conducted, no genes did not explain this trend in a row.

A theory offers evolutionary root. India, for centuries, hunger and chronic food shortages, left offs to live in the nutrition of generations.

In such circumstances, the human body adapted to live in extreme scarcity.

The body was necessary to have a storage, where the most expandable area of ​​this energy and the abdomen, the most expanding area was the place. Over time, eating more, this oil shop continued to grow – as a result of harmful levels.

“This is a certain evolutionary theory – it is not proven, but it is meaningful, but it means,” said Anoop Misra, Delhin’s Fortis-C-Doc Perfection Center, Metabolic Diseases and Endocrinology.

Last year, one paper Doctors belonging to the Indian Obetery Commission re-determined the rules of obesity for Asia Indians, but better reflect how body oil treated for early health risks outside BMI.

They created a two-stage clinical system that reviews oil distribution, related diseases and physical functions.

One of the stages is high BMI, but without abdominal obesity, metabolic disease or physical dysfunction. In such cases, lifestyle changes such as diet, exercise and sometimes medication are generally enough.

Stage two, abdominal obesity – malicious viseral fat – and often accompanied by health problems such as diabetes, knee pain or palpitations. This stage is a higher risk and call for more intensive management.

This classification leads the intensity of treatment. The early movement is the basis of the early movement after the belly fat – the semaglutide and pollatiside are effective when the new weight loss medications target it, it is effective when targeting it.

“People with a normal weight as soon as possible, can also have a dangerous level of abdominal oil,” said Dr. Misra.

Indian doctors say that there are rising due to lifestyle changes in the abdomen – more old meals, takeaways, instant food and fatty household dishes. Between 2009 and 2019, Cameroon, India and Vietnam saw the fastest growth in per capita, saw the fastest growth in the sale of ultra-exhaust food and drinks.

So what do you need to do?

Experts say that the Indians need more harsh lifestyle changes from Western standards. 150 minutes of weekly training can be enough to European men, South Asians need less than 250-300 minutes to exchange less metabolism and less efficient oil, work to show.

“Our body is no longer good to deal with oil,” said Dr Egra.

In short, the dishes are not just a punchline – it is a sign of warning. India, Teak time sits on the bomb.

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