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category of heart disease, diabetes, blood pressure and stroke and
must lose weight.
Excess fat in the body causes the arteries in your heart to become
clogged which raises your blood pressure to force the blood to your
organs. Having just an extra 30 excess pounds forces your heart to
work twice as hard to do the same job it did when you were just 30
pounds lighter.
Excess blood pressure damages the blood vessels in your kidneys and
can cause them to fail. High blood pressure is also linked with
blindness caused from burst and bleeding blood vessels in the backs of
the eyes.
High blood pressure can also cause weakened blood vessels to burst
and bleed on the brain causing a stroke. Blood clots can also become
lodged within narrowed arteries also causing a stroke.
Diabetes causes the blood to thicken which raises the risk of blood
clots forming resulting in strokes and heart attacks from your already
thickened arterial walls.
So, as you can see being overweight can cause a cascade effect on our
health, it affects everything. Each organ relies upon the other to work
effectively to keep us well. Throw any one of those off balance and it
affects everything.
The simplest solution is to just lose the weight. We seem to think that
having a little less cake or cutting back on saturated fats is a death
sentence but not nearly as deadly as the one that plays havoc with our
bodies when we choose to eat that foods that put us there.
In a medical trial to test the long term effects of excess weight on
individuals, a study of around 600 people was conducted over a 14
year period. The results revealed that participants who were
‘overweight’ had a 34% greater chance of heart failure than someone
at their ideal weight. Participants who were obese had a massive
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