The medical fraternity across the world has identified several risk factors for ‘heart’; lifestyle playing a major role in deciding the health of your heart — but, with some of them capable of being modified or treated, others can be controlled.
The increase or decrease of many of such heart risk factors are thus in your hand! Yes, one of those is your little pot-belly. They can eventually turn out to be serious for your little but life-regulating heart.
That little pouch of abdominal fat hanging out of your pants, besides being ugly, can ‘plaque’ your heart’s arteries or that of the aorta with calcium deposits.
Do you know you have a high waist-to-hip ratio; you’re more susceptible to heart disease?
And, to aware you, even a little pot-belly can increase the risk considerably.
James deLemos, one of the study’s researchers and the director of the Coronary Care unit at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre said,
Your chances of having buildup of plaque in the arteries of the heart or the arteries of the aorta go up with even a few inches.
So, if you don’t want that calcium to build up in the heart or aorta arteries, keep a check on that ugly pot-belly of yours - for which you have not been able to find a convincing reason to reduce to fitness.
