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Twenty first century is of Metabolic Syndrome

Lifestyle diseases like diabetes, hypertension, obesity What is metabolism?
and heart problems due to cholesterol disorders; all To understand metabolism just
these constitutes a syndrome that is known as take a simple example that with
metabolic syndrome. So 21stcentury will be a century the help of wheat flour we can
of metabolic syndrome. Almost every one of us in our make Bati, Roti, Puri, Paratha or
country might be suffering from one of its constituents Halwathat's how metabolism is
like hypertension or BP, obesity or overweight, carried out in our body. Our body
diabetes or prediabetes (sugar problem), dyslipidemia metabolises carbohydrates, protein
(cholesterol disorders) and all these lead to ultimately and fats and leads to formation of various components
cardiovascular disease commonly known as heart required for our survival and that's how metabolism
attack. Metabolic syndrome acronym- is…..
M=Metabolic disorder What are calories?
E= Energy preservation leads to increase in fat cell size Calories are the measure of energy in our food stuff.
T=Triglycerides increases, a kind of cholesterol There are two types of calories Free Calories and
A=Abdominal obesity Nutritive Calories
B=BP blood pressure
O=Obesity a) Free calories” means they only provide energy.
L=Lifestyle problem b) Nutritive calories provide vitamins minerals trace
I=Insulin(hormone taking care of blood glucose) elements along with energy. So nutritive calories are
resistance, leading to diabetes better than free calories.
C=Coronary artery disease or heart attack Examples: Sugar cane juice provides nutritive calories,
while cola and soft drinks provide free calories.
We all are living sedentary life along with lot of stress,
Another example of free and nutritive calories is
maybe familial, social, financial and professional. All
Maida and whole wheat flour. We are eating refined
these lead to release of stress hormone (cortisol) in our
food in the form of free calories like pizza, burger, soft
body, which causes altered metabolism, ultimately
drinks which are calorie dense foods, gives us lot of
leading to increased size and number of fat cells in our
calories, but no nutrition and make us obese.
body and all this results in you suffering from one of the
components of metabolic syndrome. All above definitions and knowledge are important to
Obesity or overweight and adiposity. understand energy metabolism and excess energy
Obesity or overweight means if your weight is more depositions as fat on the body parts and cholesterol in
than recommended, it is called obesity. One very the blood vessels leading to blockage and heart attack
important term is abdominal obesity meaning “Pet Ka or brain attack(paralysis)and fatty liver. To understand
Motapa” or in common language “Tond” is more the equation of energy metabolism. You have to
harmful than generalised obesity. remember calorie content of each and every food stuff
then and then only you can consume sufficient and
Adiposity means increased fat in your body, which
nutritive calories.
causes all harmful effects of metabolic disorder that is
Roughly you must remember that 1 g of fat contains 9
metabolic syndrome. Obesity acronym…
Calories, while 1 g of carbohydrate and protein contains
O= over weight
4 Cal. What does it mean? No food will contain more
B= Belly fat (abdominal obesity)
E=Eating habits than 9 Cal per gram of food stuff. I just give a simple way
S=Sexual dysfunction to remember the calorie content of the food.
I= Insulin resistance a) Any fried item, dry fruits, mave Ki Mithai,
T= Triglycerides namkeens like senv, mixture, Kachori Samosa will
Y= Why? (It happened to me) roughly have 5 to 6 Cal per gram.
b) All fruits roughly contain 0.5 to 1 Cal per gram.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine. 48