Obesity Causes, Treatment, and Prevention
Understanding obesity causes, treatment and prevention is one of the best things that you can do for yourself. Over the course of the last several decades, the world has suffered from an increase in obesity due to a variety of factors. With more people eating fast food regularly and not getting enough exercise, it's no wonder that obesity has become a real epidemic. But there is more to it than just that.
Weight gain occurs when you eat more calories than your body uses up. If the food you eat provides more calories than your body needs, the excess is converted to fat. Initially, fat cells increase in size. When they can no longer expand, they increase in number. If you lose weight, the size of the fat cells decreases, but the number of cells does not.
CAUSES OF OBESITY
The reasons for the imbalance between calorie intake and consumption vary by individual. Your age, gender, genes, psychological makeup, and environmental factors all may contribute.
1. Genes: Your genes may play a role in efficiency of metabolism and storage and distribution of body fat.
2. Family lifestyle: Obesity tends to run in families. This is caused both by genes and by shared diet and lifestyle habits. If one of your parents is obese, you have a higher risk of being obese.
3. Emotions: Some people overeat because of depression, hopelessness, anger, boredom, and many other reasons that have nothing to do with hunger. This doesn't mean that overweight and obese people have more emotional problems than other people. It just means that their feelings influence their eating habits, causing them to overeat.
4. Environmental factors: The most important environmental factor is lifestyle. Your eating habits and activity level are partly learned from the people around you. Overeating and sedentary habits (inactivity) are the most important risk factors for obesity.
5. Sex: Men have more muscle than women, on average. Because muscleburns more calories than other types of tissue, men use more calories than women, even at rest. Thus, women are more likely than men to gain weight with the same calorie intake.
6. Age: People tend to lose muscle and gain fat as they age. Their metabolism also slows somewhat. Both of these lower their calorie requirements.
7. Pregnancy: Women tend to weigh an average of 4-6 pounds more after a pregnancy than they did before the pregnancy. This can compound with each pregnancy.Certain medical conditions and medications can cause or promote obesity, although these are much less common causes of obesity than overeating and inactivity. Some examples of these are as follows: Cushing syndrome, Depression,Certain medications (examples are steroids, antidepressants, birth controlpills) Prader-Willi syndrome, Polycystic ovarian syndrome
8. Obesity can be associated with other eating disorders, such as binge eating or bulimia.
9. The distribution of your body fat also plays a role in determining your risk of obesity-related health problems. There are at least two different kinds of body fat. Studies conducted in Scandinavia have shown that excess body fat distributed around the waist ("apple"-shaped figure, intra-abdominal fat) carries more risk than fat distributed on the hips and thighs ("pear"-shaped figure, fat under the skin).
TREATMENTS OF OBESITY
Because a poor diet and a lack of exercise are the most common causes of obesity, there are some fairly simple treatments for obesity.
1. By incorporating more natural foods into your diet.
2. Drinking more water.
3. Cutting out junk food and
4. Most importantly, getting into the habit of exercising several times every week, you can drastically lower your weight and decrease your chances of becoming obese.
Prevention from Obesity
If you are concerned about obesity, there are some things you can do to prevent it. First, make sure you are maintaining a healthy diet and getting enough exercise. Next, see you doctor regularly and make sure that you have her check your Body Mass Index, or BMI ( we'll talk more about this subsequently) to make sure you're not suffering from obesity. This is a test that takes your height and weight into account to determine your level of health.
Regardless of how you do it, make sure you do everything you can to steer clear of obesity. Obesity risks range from heart attacks to diabetes. Obesity effects can also impact your everyday life and make it harder for you to enjoy it.
DID YOU KNOW?
1. The average red blood cell lives for 120 days.
2. There are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of red blood cells in your body at any moment. To maintain this number, about two and a half million new ones need to be produced every second by your bone marrow.That's like a new population of the city of Toronto every second.
3. Considering all the tissues and cells in your body, 25 million new cells are being produced each second. That's a little less than the population of Canada - every second !
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu
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