Building more abdominal muscles can help men live longer

　　Everyone wants to live a long life, but not everyone can get the ticket to longevity. Do you know? For men, start being positive from now on exercise Your muscles, especially your abdominal muscles, are likely to do so. Scientists have concluded that men with well-developed abdominal muscles are more likely to live longer Dream。
　　
　　Abdominal muscle aging has many negative consequences
　　
　　How many muscles does a person have? It weighs nearly 640 pieces from head to toe, and the total weight accounts for about 35-45% of the body weight. Each muscle can be light or heavy, with large muscles (such as the abdomen, back, thighs, etc.) weighing up to 2 kilograms, and small ones weighing only a few grams (such as the eye muscles that control eyeball movements). If you look closer, you will find that each muscle is composed of many fibers of varying lengths. The longest can reach 60 centimeters and the shortest is only about 1 millimeter. The total number of muscle fibers in the body is about 6 billion. In addition, muscles, like other organs, are inseparable from the blood supply, so there are dense capillaries distributed in the muscles, with a total length of 100,000 kilometers, which can circle the earth twice and a half.
　　
　　From the perspective of human physiology, the main function of muscles is nothing more than to work with bones to generate force, allowing people to do various activities or sports. How is it linked to lifespan? It turns out that the number and vitality of muscles are related to certain aspects of the human body. disease The occurrence and development are related. Let’s just talk about the abdominal muscles. Due to the particularity of their location, they are very important to healthy Even the impact on life span is considerable.
　　
　　Medical research shows that, like bones, blood vessels and other tissues, muscles also age with age, and a sign of aging is a decrease in muscle mass. Once a man crosses the threshold of 40 years old, his muscles begin to decrease at a rate of 1% per year. 1% is not as simple as a number: First, people's basal metabolism decreases, and caloric consumption decreases. Excessive caloric intake is converted into fat and accumulates in the body, forming obesity. Obesity has been recognized by experts as a disease. At the same time, muscles are also reliable assistants to the heart, which is known as the "engine of life." Muscle weakness will inevitably affect the heart and become an "accomplice" in inducing cardiovascular disease. coronary heart disease one of the factors. In addition, as the strength of the leg muscles decreases, it will be difficult to go up and down steps, the walking stride will become shorter, and it is easy to trip and suffer fractures. Furthermore, with less muscles, the burden on the joints will increase, resulting in joint pain, which will lead to posture deformation and lead to low back pain。
　　
　　In comparison, the abdominal muscles are the focus, including four groups of muscles: rectus abdominis, external obliques, internal obliques and transversus abdominis. The reason is simple. The reduction of abdominal muscles and the loss of elasticity will inevitably lead to fat accumulation, resulting in a loose and bulging abdomen, commonly known as the general's belly. The fat buried under the general's belly easily flows to the blood vessels of the heart and brain, causing fat deposition on the blood vessel walls and thickening of the blood vessel walls, which is medically called atherosclerosis. Therefore, obesity is more likely to cause high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and other fatal diseases than obesity in other parts of the body. It is natural that people's life span will be shortened. A research report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control stated that at least 15 diseases that can lead to death are directly related to abdominal obesity. If abdominal subcutaneous fat exceeds 15-25% of the normal standard, mortality will increase by 30%. In particular, the risk of sudden death increases significantly. This is the reason why the longer the belt, the shorter the life span.