What is the difference between male and female obesity?

Men and women have different body shapes even if they have the same degree of obesity. More than half of men's obesity is centered on the half-length body. From the outside, it only gives people a strong feeling. It does not feel fat, but it has a more prominent belly, and it becomes more and more obvious with age. From afar, it looks like a round apple, so the male's fat body is often called "apple-shaped body."
Women are obese, such as waist, abdomen, buttocks and thighs. The shape of a fat looks like a pear. Therefore, this fat body shape of women is called a "pear-shaped body."
Whether it is "apple-shaped" or "pear-shaped", it is because the abdomen has accumulated a lot of fat, and it accumulates in the mesentery and blood vessels that support the liver, pancreas, small intestine, and other organs. It belongs to visceral fat type obesity.
Apple-shaped body: fat accumulates in the abdomen, looks like the shape of the apple from the appearance, so called apple-shaped fat body, more common in men.
Pear-shaped body: Fat accumulates in the abdomen, buttocks and thighs. It looks like a pear shape from the outside, so it is called a pear-shaped, fat body and is more common in women. Visceral fat type obesity will hinder the function of the internal organs by the fat, insulin function will reduce blood sugar regulation, resulting in sugar and fat can not be a smooth metabolism.
Therefore, it is easy to cause diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and myocardial infarction. The cause of visceral fat type obesity is the increase of triglycerides. Triglycerides protect the viscera from external shocks and help the body maintain body temperature.

The body converts proteins, sugars, fats, etc., that are taken from food into energy, and the excess is converted into triglycerides, which are stored in fat cells and in the liver, and are supplemented when the body's energy is lacking. However, due to the poor dietary structure of modern people, stored triglycerides have not been consumed but have accumulated more and more, they have turned into fats and are stored around the viscera, and people have become “pot bellies”.

Therefore, those who do not seem to be fat, but only have a little belly, must not be taken lightly, if you can not control the weight loss of belly, will threaten health.