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When to Lose Weight – Insights Through Our Eyes

When to lose weight?  The answer to this question is important for obvious reasons as carrying excess weight can lead to potentially fatal health problems that include heart attack, stroke, diabetes and even some forms of cancer.

At one level the answer to the question When to lose weight? is an obvious one.  When your waist expands or your BMI (Body Mass Index) is in a range too high for your weight and height or you feel unwell.

Recent research is highlighting another way of making an early and as a result, safer diagnosis of your need to lose weight and get healthier, through examining our eyes.  We often refer to our eyes as ‘windows to the soul’ but with recent research in the world of medicine, they are also becoming ‘windows to the heart, kidneys and even the brain’. 

By examining the blood vessels in the retina at the back of our eye, scientists are suggesting that they are now developing an insight into the condition of other blood vessels around other parts of the body.  If this research continues in a positive light, optometrists and ophthalmologists may have a part in diagnosing the potential for health problems related in particular to heart attack and stroke.

But why examine the blood vessels of the retina?  These are the only vessels in the body that can be seen directly without invasive surgery.  If these blood vessels appear damaged because of the build up of plaque and cholesterol as a result of excess weight they indicate the early signs of potential risk of heart disease.

This is like getting advanced notice of an impending, debilitating or fatal illness about which you can take some action.  Being able to view the risk of potential illness by seeing the damage already impacting on the blood vessels in your retina as part of your retinal scan can have an important impact and motivate you to lose weight and improve your fitness.

So if the research suggesting that blood vessels in the eye reflect the condition of vessels in the rest of the body continues to produce positive results, the question of when to lose weight may well be answered accurately without surgery and confirmed instead by a visit to your optometrist or ophthalmologist.  Keep up to date with this latest medical research so that you can use it to diagnose your own health.

 

  

 


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