What’s the Metabolic Syndrome ?

To simplify at the extreme, we will first see if you have the syndrome that we will call the “syndrome of the big belly”.

Do you have the “syndrome of the big belly”?

To know this, first provide yourself with:

• a dressmaker meter
• a tensiometer
• a biological check up (prescribed by your doctor).

To say that you have this syndrome, we must submit at the same time an overweight and a high size of weight (> 88 cm for women and > 102 cm for men), and at least two of the following elements:

• an arterial tension >130/85 mmHg
• a glycemia >1,10g/l or 6,10 mmol/l
• triglycerides 1,50g/l or 1,6 mmol/l
• a low HDL Cholesterol (good cholesterol) < 0,40g/l or 1,04mmol/l for men and  < 0,50g/l or 1,29mmol/l for women.

If you produce the previous table, you have what we’ve called the “syndrome of the big belly” and, in medical reality, as your doctor will tell you, you concretely have a “metabolic syndrome”.

“But what is it? Is it a new disease?”

No. if you have this syndrome, you don’t suffer from a new disease but from a bundle a signs which expose you to a really high probability of developing a disease, as a diabete and/or cardiovascular problems (coronaries incidents, infarct).

These diseases can appear in a few years, but their appearance is not at all inescapable.

“So what to do?”

A regular physical activity and a simple food balancing are your best weapons to escape from the metabolic syndrome and its consequences.

For information

You must decrease the intra-visceral fats, those of the “big belly”, and you must know that a loss of weight of only 10% can allow you to correct a part of the complications linked to the syndrome (sleep apnea, breath insufficiency, arterial hypertension, and diabete of type 2, articular problems…)

In all cases, your doctor will know how to advise you.