Research
Hormonal
Obesity, particularly abdominal-visceral obesity, is a primary risk factor for metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease through mechanisms involving insulin resistance, chronic inflammation, and dyslipidemia.
Maintaining a healthy weight, particularly around the abdomen, is crucial for preventing metabolic syndrome and heart disease. This involves managing caloric intake, increasing physical activity, and monitoring blood pressure and lipid levels.
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Obesity, especially abdomino-visceral, is associated with certain pathogenic factors that contribute to normal glucose homeostasis: high plasma levels of increased hepatic glycogenesis, and free fatty acids, insulin resistance.
Why this rating
Based on extensive physiological descriptions and multiple epidemiological studies across South America.
Source
Overweight and obesity: a review of their relationship to metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and cancer in South America
Laura Rosana Aballay et al. · Nutrition Reviews · 2013
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