The Relationship Between Cholesterol and Weight

Cholesterol blood flow

The relation between overweight and cholesterol very closely and lead to serious health risks. You maybe only  seen in the abdominal area that fat accumulates in that area or in thighs, arms, or other parts of your body,  when in fact also the accumulation of fat in a more significant part in the heart and the blood vessels that you can not see by naked eye.

If that happens, of course, you are particularly at risk of heart disorders ranging from coronary heart disease to heart failure. This happens because your body's fat metabolism in impaired due to excessive weight. Excessive weight, also push your heart to work harder because you need blood volume also increased in order to meet the intake of nutrients and oxygen to your body.

What can cause high cholesterol ?

The things that can increase your cholesterol levels :

1. Eating a diet high in saturated fat
2. Not being physically active
3. Being overweight or obese
4. Smoking
5. Having a large waist circumference.

The main symptoms of high cholesterol

High cholesterol has no symptoms. A blood test is the only way to detect high cholesterol.

But according to the people that we have interviewed, sometimes they feel symptoms like below :

• Tightness in the neck and sore shoulders , it is because the supply of blood and oxygen is hampered by the buildup of plaque in blood vessels.
• Frequent headaches, it is happening because of the increased cholesterol makes arteriosclerosis ( hardening of the arteries ). The flow of blood flowing to the brain is blocked.
• very quick feel sleepy, because cholesterol constricts blood vessels and eventually close the blood vessels, blood flow that carries oxygen to the brain are blocked so that someone fast asleep. 
• often feel weak, tired and lethargic.
• Tingling, this occurs because the flow of blood is a clot and not smooth.

If you feel the symptoms above, and you realize that your body weight is not in good shape, you have to go to the doctors and check the cholesterol in your blood.