Obesity
Obesity is a health concern because of its implications for the individual because it increases the risk of many diseases and health conditions including
Coronary heart disease
Diabetes Type 2
Cancers (endometrial, breast, and colon)
Hypertension (high blood pressure)
Dyslipidemia (for example, high total cholesterol or high levels of triglycerides)
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Liver and Gallbladder disease
Sleep apnea and respiratory problems
Osteoarthritis (degeneration of cartilage and its underlying bone within the joint)
and Gynecological problems (abnormal menses, infertility).
This condition may cause or contribute to premature death and substantial disability.
Cardiovascular disease - mainly heart disease and stroke - already the world's number one cause of death, killing 17 million people each year and diabetes has rapidly become a global epidemic - according to WHO projections of diabetes deaths will increase by more than 50% worldwide in the next 10 years .
Less common health conditions associated with increased weight include asthma, hepatic steatosis, and sleep apnea.
Causes of obesity :
1. Hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism or low thyroid levels. Low thyroid levels can also trigger a person's weight easy ride, commonly experienced by many women. Someone who is dehydrated thyroid in the body causes fat to accumulate in the blood, difficulty thawed and metabolic rates slow.
Symptoms of thyroid disorders are easily tired, lethargic, often anxious, swelling of the face, puffy eyes, hair loss, dry skin, decreased sweat production, depression, forgetfulness, speech sounds slow and somewhat hoarse voice, headache, decreased libido, tingling in hands and feet, infertility or recurrent miscarriage.
2. Essential fatty acid deficiency
If women lack essential fatty acids (good fats for the body) that can help generate and replenish hormones and maintain the body's metabolism in women is reduced it will make a woman experiencing an increased appetite to add fat in the body. Sometimes someone is wrong in meeting the needs of body fat resulting in unnecessary body fat accumulate in the blood and weight to rise.
3. Menopause
If a woman enters menopause or menopausal will decline and hormonal changes, during the sudden menopasuse - arrived appetite will increase dramatically. Menopause also slows metabolism resulting in fat burning resulting in difficult weight gain. Plus, if at the time of menopause, most women are not in Balance with the sport.
4. Cushing's syndrome or disorder that is too high cortisol
Cushing's syndrome is a condition ketka the excessive production of the hormone cortisol that mneyebabkan accumulation of fat, especially on the face, abdomen and shoulders as wide, except the hands and feet stay slim. Things like this are responsible for increasing levels of cortisol weight gain, especially in the abdomen.
The negative effect of increasing the amount of cortisol makes the muscles feel tired and weak, thin skin, heal old wounds, easy bruising, high blood pressure, glucose levels are not controlled, stretch marks (a type of cellulite) are purple on the abdomen, irregular periods, hair loss, and so forth.
5. Treatment
If a woman who is undergoing a family planning program with the birth control pill, it usually affects the menstrual cycle becomes irregular. Drug Pill is very influential on the increased appetite, steroid medications, anti-inflammatory, anti-depressant and a diabetes drug also triggers weight gain that sometimes women can not be explained.
6. Serious illness
In general, if a person has a history of diabetes mellitus, kidney disease, liver / heart has a pretty drastic appetite that causes the body to store plenty of fluids and adverse effects, such as swelling of the eyes and ankles. Diseases of ovarian cysts and lymph nodes can also cause weight gain that can not be explained.
7. Blood sugar imbalance
Foods with lots of sugar we often encounter and consumption, namely rice, chocolate, beverages and foods that contain lots of carbohydrates. It is basically the body needs carbohydrates to be burned in the body's digestive menjagi glucose, glucose was the source of energy as well as the hormone insulin in charge of store sugar properly. But foods that contain lots of sugar often makes people addicted, making it difficult insulin regulate blood sugar levels. As a result the body weight increases.
