Pulmonary Disease

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Fat is living tissue and needs fuel and oxygen like any other. A person’s extra body mass requires more oxygen to keep the tissue alive and undergoing metabolic processes. This increased oxygen demand of the body means that obese people in general must breathe more to keep their tissue alive.

📌 Overweight and obese adults breathe in up to 50% more air every day, compared with adults of normal weight.

📌 Overweight and obese children breathe in up to 24% more air each day than children of normal weight.

Toxic visceral abdominal fat restricts the diaphragm and makes it harder for lungs to expand. This means that both overweight adults and children are more vulnerable to air contaminants (such as ammonia, sulfur dioxide, ozone and nitrogen dioxide which are well-known to be respiratory irritants) and at greater risk for pulmonary diseases:

✅ Asthma

✅ COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)

✅ Obstructive sleep apnea

✅ Obesity hypoventilation syndrome

✅ Dyspnea (shortness of breath; wheezing)

If you are overweight or obese and suffering from any of these pulmonary issues, weight loss is a must to help improve with lung function.