The size of this body part affects lifespan

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Everyone wants to be healthy and live a long life. But not everyone manages to achieve this. In addition, there are parts of the body whose size is directly related to life expectancy. And this is the waist.

It turns out that a person's life expectancy can be predicted from only one thing. This is the waist circumference. And the larger it is, the less a person will live.

In medicine, the accumulation of fat at the waist is called “central obesity”. People usually refer to it as a beer belly. This type of obesity is considered to be the most harmful to health.

Due to belly fat, a person may develop diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension.

According to statistics, for every 14 cm increase in waist size in men and every 14.9 cm in women, the risk of developing cardiovascular disease increases by 21-40%.

A third of people with a large waist also show signs of developing diabetes.

In addition, a person's waist circumference can increase along with the appearance of symptoms of hypertriglyceridemia. And this is even worse for health, since the risk of developing both diabetes and heart disease increases.