This name came to us from the West, but it is not used at all to indicate a specific disease, but to describe a complex of symptoms. However, taken together, they can cause very specific diseases: stroke, vasoconstriction and type 2 diabetes. Therefore, metabolic syndrome is isolated separately, and people who have it are under close medical supervision.
This problem is relevant not only for the States, in Russia there are also quite a lot of people who have a metabolic syndrome. Its definition is associated, first of all, with the identification of overweight in humans. Who usually has this condition?
- In people with central obesity. Usually, these are men whose overweight is concentrated on the abdomen. Women also have this condition, although numerical indicators are used to determine whether central obesity is used.
- In people who have decreased sensitivity to insulin. Because of this, the blood sugar and fat content increase.
- Other risk factors: adulthood, genetic predisposition, hormonal disorders, lack of physical activity.
Simultaneously with the metabolic syndrome, symptoms such as increased blood coagulation and mild inflammation in various body tissues are manifested.
How to determine metabolic syndrome?
- The patient has a pressure greater than 135/85 at rest
- Fasting blood sugar
- In women, the waist volume is more than 88 cm, in men - more than 100
- More than 150mg / L of triglycerides in the blood
- High Density Cholesterol
If there are at least 3 of the listed symptoms, then the condition is present. What is its pathogenesis? Metabolic syndrome is associated with the chronic effects of large amounts of sugar and triglycerides in the blood on all organs and systems. Over time, they simply stop working normally. In addition, visceral fat exhibits hormonal activity, which adversely affects the general condition of the body. The development of the metabolic syndrome is associated with malnutrition, the presence in food of a large amount of animal fat. Vegetarians almost never suffer from this disease, and vegans never do. This is a disease of plenty, when there is always a lot of fatty food at hand, and there is no need to move, since you can get into a car and comfortably get to the right place.
What tests can identify the metabolic syndrome?
For sugar, for low and high density cholesterol, total cholesterol, triglycerides.
The goal of treatment is to prevent diabetes and heart disease. The doctor will recommend some measures aimed at reducing pressure, "bad" cholesterol, blood sugar and triglycerides. However, private measures will not succeed - it is necessary to change the whole lifestyle.
First of all, you still have to lose weight. Actually, this is not such a difficult problem as women's magazines draw it for us. Reducing calorie intake at the same time as regular, if not the most difficult, physical activity in a few months will significantly improve your condition. Often enough to lose 5 kg for sugar to go down. To do this, you need to reduce calorie intake by 500-1000 kcal and include daily walks of at least 30 minutes in the schedule. Although over time, you need to increase their speed and slowly switch to running. First, intermittently, and then run non-stop the entire distance. By the way, the distance can also be increased.
In general, you need to come to normal weight. So that BMI does not exceed 25. If you succeed, then even such a formidable disease as type 2 diabetes will no longer be so likely. It is necessary to change eating habits, reduce the amount of fat in the diet, quit smoking and start eating fish at least twice a week, and if the meat should be lean, then the fish, on the contrary, should be oily.
Be sure to take into account risk factors - and change your lifestyle until you have to do it because of serious illnesses.