Your Waist Size Is IMPORTANT!

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I’m going to tell you why your waist circumference is more important than your weight. A woman’s waist should be less than 35 inches, and a man’s should be less than 40 inches. Every inch increases the risk of premature death.

Visceral fat is fat that surrounds the organs and has several negative health consequences, including the following:

•Sends signals to increase inflammation in the body

•Contributes to insulin resistance

•Hard to detect

•2x-3x greater risk for heart disease

•Increases risk of cancer, especially of the breast and colon

Visceral fat is not the same as subcutaneous fat. Visceral fat is hormonal fat caused by cortisol or insulin. Consuming carbohydrates and frequent eating can spike insulin, leading to visceral fat.

After menopause, women often lose their waistline due to a shift in hormones. Estrogen and progesterone decrease while cortisol increases. This also contributes to a loss of muscle mass.

Body mass index (BMI) is not the best indicator of your overall health because it doesn’t reflect whether a person has significant muscle mass or fat.

Some belly fat looks like visceral fat but is actually related to cirrhosis of the liver.

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0:00.0	I have some pretty shocking wild information to share with you about waste circumference.
0:06.0	The size of your waste can actually predict serious diseases even more than your actual weight.
0:12.0	Well, for women, it's 35 inches for men it's 40 inches. If we
0:17.0	just talk about longevity for example every additional inch increases the risk of premature death.
0:24.6	And we're talking about visceral fat.
0:26.6	That's the fat around the organs.
0:29.2	That is a very different fat
0:31.0	than the superficial fat that you have just underneath your skin.
0:34.6	The visceral fat that you have actually gives off these little messages that increase
0:38.4	inflammation, which then can lead to all sorts of issues relating to insulin resistance which is kind of like the thing that comes right before diabetes.
0:48.5	Which is that visceral fat but it's very hard to detect unless you do some type of test like a CAT scan or some other test.
0:56.0	This real fact can double or triple your risk for getting heart disease.
1:00.0	It can increase the risk of cancer, especially for breast and colon cancer.
1:05.5	Then you have metabolic syndrome, which is kind of a combination of several things,
1:09.0	but out of all of those, the most significant increased risk is for high blood pressure.
1:14.0	Now if we look at the difference between visceral fat and subcutaneous fat, they're very different.
1:20.0	Vistoral fat is hormonal fat. It's caused by cortisol or insulin.
1:26.3	And when we're talking about increasing insulin,
1:28.1	we're mainly talking about carbohydrates.
1:30.1	And we're also talking about frequency of eating,
1:32.1	like all the snacks that people eat between the meals.
1:35.0	And not to mention the sugary drinks and the beer, etc.
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