Metabolic Syndrome

Nowadays I've heard about the metabolic syndrome. We modern people may be related to the syndrome. Here's a summary of metabolic syndrome;

(The Yomiuri Shinbun, May 22,2006)
Yoko Mizui
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry announced that about 20 million middle-aged and older Japanese have the problem of so-called metabolic syndrome, in which fat accumulates around internal organs.

Metabolic syndrome is feared to cause stroke on heart attacks. ...one out of two middle-aged or older men is an actual or potential sufferer of the syndrome. As for women, it is one out of five.

It has been learned that visceral fat can cause diabetes, high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia- excess fat in the blood. Combinations of obesity with these three factors have been closely connected with the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

As people in this country began to enjoy a richer diet after World War Ⅱ and exercised less as automobile use spread, more and more people have become fat.

...The ministry proposed measures for addressing metabolic syndrome in its efforts to prevent lifestyle-related diseases in a package of bills concerning health care reforms under deliberation in the current Diet session.

...The best way to overcome metabolic sydrome is through exercise and a healthy diet. ...avoiding high-energy animal fats and sugars and taking low-energy vegetables, mushrooms and seaweed is effective in reducing visceral fat. Regular exercise is also important.

...The business world has become interested in metabolic syndrome and has developed various projects to control the nation's medical expenditures and develop the health care industry.

I am too a little fat for 25. I'll be careful of my health not to make friends with metabolic syndrome.