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Metabolic Check at Home

Metabolic syndrome is a dangerous syndrome leading to dreadful adult diseases. It is very difficult to return to healthy condition after becoming metabolic syndrome. It is because you can not change lifestyle of many years, such as easy-to-get-fat eating habits, lack of exercise, smoking and so on.

Metabolic Check at Home

Metabolic syndrome is a dangerous syndrome leading to dreadful adult diseases. It is very difficult to return to healthy condition after becoming metabolic syndrome. It is because you can not change lifestyle of many years, such as easy-to-get-fat eating habits, lack of exercise, smoking and so on.
If possible, you would like to prevent it early before becoming metabolic syndrome. But visceral fat accumulates before noticed. It is common to be caught by a health examination when you thought you were OK.
Before getting caught by a medical checkup, if you notice it early and take measures, you will not suffer much. For that, it would be nice if you could check signs that might be metabolic syndrome symptoms at home.
Recently it has become a convenient age.
You can measure blood pressure at home with a commercially available sphygmomanometer. Body weight meters that can also measure body fat percentage are also commonly sold. By measuring the torso with this, a simple metabolic check is possible.
Although it may be slightly inferior in accuracy compared with metabolic health examinations including blood tests etc., it is still very useful to be able to check in your daily life. By making a graph of the measured data and looking at the change, you can see the change from the past and it becomes easier to take measures.
Now is the time of prevention. Let's keep on metabolic checking and prevention from everyday so as not to suffer from becoming metabolic syndrome and adult diseases.

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About Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic Syndrome is
In the general public, there seem to be a lot of people who think that simply fat people are metabolic syndrome. Although obesity is certainly a factor of metabolic syndrome, it alone can not be said to understand the problem of metabolic syndrome. In order not to regret in the future, correct understanding about metabolic syndrome and daily measures are important.
Diseases Caused
Metabolic syndrome refers to a syndrome such as hypertension caused by accumulation of visceral fat. By becoming metabolic syndrome, adult diseases such as diabetes and hypertension are caused, and then serious diseases such as myocardial infarction start.
Why Risky from the Age 40?
Metabolic syndrome refers to a syndrome that causes adult diseases such as diabetes and hypertension due to obesity in which visceral fat accumulates. If you leave the state of metabolic syndrome it is said to be dangerous because it leads to heart disease and cerebral infarction.
Subcutaneous Fat and Visceral Fat
There are two types of fat: subcutaneous fat and visceral fat. Subcutaneous fat is fat attached just inside the skin, and visceral fat is fat attached to the internal organs. It is the visceral fat who is said to be dangerous in metabolic syndrome.
Metabolic Health Examination and Self-check
Metabolic syndrome examination began in Japan from 2008. Although this metabolic health examination is a new movement and trial for the health and safety of the Japanese citizen by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, it seems that the purpose is not fully penetrated by the people.

Measures against Metabolic Syndrome

Measures Against Metabolic Syndrome by Meals
Food is nutrient that creates a human body. If you eat too much, drink too much, your diet is biased, or the time to eat is irregular, your body will not be able to convert your food well into energy.
Measures by Exercise
Lack of exercise is said to be one of the main causes of metabolic syndrome. Muscle falls by not moving the body, the basal metabolism goes down and visceral fat becomes easy to accumulate. Especially when the muscles around the belly are weak, the belly goes big.
Stop Smoking
When a person who smokes becomes metabolic syndrome, its danger level increases sharply. People who are judged to be or likely to be metabolic syndrome by metabolic health examination are encouraged to stop smoking immediately.
Stop or Save Drinking
The relationship between alcohol and metabolism is not necessarily clear. Opinions vary from doctors as well. Some doctors say that even if they become metabolic syndrome they do not care about alcohol, some strongly recommend to stop or save drinking.
Medicine
When people gets sick, they drink medicine. Various medicines corresponding to each disease, such as cold medicine when catching a cold, stomach medicine if the stomach pains, headache medicine if you suffer headache, etc. are being developed.
About Liposuction
Have you heard the word liposuction? As one of the cosmetic surgery methods, it became a big topic so some people may know in detail. There are many sites introducing and explaining things about liposuction also on the Internet.
Folk Remedy
As metabolic syndrome and its dangers become widely known, many folk remedies for metabolism are appearing. There are various kinds of folk remedies. Some of them are not well-known, some are published in books, others are introduced on the internet site and they are becoming topics.

Metabolic Syndrome Prevention

Daily Diet
It is hard to take measures after becoming metabolic syndrome. Reducing made visceral fat requires a lot of hardships and it is hard to change the lifestyle that has been acquired for many years. And, you need to keep your efforts all the time.
Exercise Habits
Metabolic syndrome is syndrome caused by accumulation of fat in internal organs. Fat accumulates in the internal organs because it is stored in the body without consuming the energy of what you ate.
Metabolic Check at Home
Metabolic syndrome is a dangerous syndrome leading to dreadful adult diseases. It is very difficult to return to healthy condition after becoming metabolic syndrome. It is because you can not change lifestyle of many years, such as easy-to-get-fat eating habits, lack of exercise, smoking and so on.

For Health

Alcohol and Cigarette
Metabolic syndrome is caused by accumulation of visceral fat. Alcohol and cigarettes are not necessarily directly related to metabolic syndrome. However, considering health, I can not stop talking about alcohol and cigarettes with metabolic syndrome.
Family Cooperation
If you do not do anything, your immunity and physical strength will decline with age. Even if you are spending your daily life as usual, the state of your body gradually gets overwhelmed.

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