The world today can be described as a place of riches with many wanting to get the best (in terms of feedings) out of what they work (their money). As such, many keep consuming recklessly without any control nor consider the disadvantages of such feeding habits as well as the proportion of nutrients needed for a healthy living. As such, many today are becoming obese as a result of over junk foods intake with little or no activities such as sports to overcome the negative effects. Being obese is a very dangerous and complicated process as it is the major start to inheriting many different diseases as well as even heart problems which even lead to dead if not carefully handled. Many obese usually have shorter life span of between 30 to 50 years. There are a lot of disadvantages associated with obese people not only to themselves but also to their families as well as those taking care of them or in some cases during rescue.
Here are some fictional tips about obesity (all that you need to know about obesity).
Obese People
The number of obese people increases gradually on a daily basis. World statistics over the past 40 years show that the percentage of obese adults has dramatically outclassed those of light weight. World statistics of obese people shows that in adults, the percentage of obese people is more for women than for men. But over the past 40 years, the proportion of obese men has tripled than usual while for women it has doubled. On the other hand, the proportion of light people (men and women) has fallen dramatically to about three times than never before in the past 40 years.
It therefore suffice to say with regard to time that our world has changed from an underweight dominated or prevalence world to a world dominated by obese people. And if this is not prevented or halted, the proportion of obese women will be very high before 2025 compared to the underweight women. With the number of obese people being at about 640 million, it can be seen statistically from world obesity trend researches that about 180 million of the total obese people come from the richest countries in the world which include the United States of America, United Kingdom especially England and Wale, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and even Ireland. This can primarily be explained by the cheap cost of junk foods and beverages in these countries. It suffices therefore that appropriate prices be fixed for such foods and beverages. Not only referring to the numerous and chronic diseases caused by obesity, obese people are a bigger threat to the environment too due to excessive waste produced from the over consumption of basic food stuffs.
In other scenes, obese people are a threat during rescue services and besides, the number of obese people rescued from fire by firefighters has increase over recent years. Because of the excessive weight from many obese people, it can be a difficult scene for rescuers as there could be forced to use lifting equipment as many of such obese people are too heavy to be supported by a rescuer. On the other hand, because during rescue services, it is usually advisable to pass through safe paths, in cases where there are no safe way out, one can only be created by breaking the wall, window, as well as some interior fittings to take out the victim, but in this case the rescuers will need to do more work to create such paths as obese people require a larger surface area to pass through.
There are generally three types of fats which lead to obesity and they include;
Skinny fat; which is characterized by the following:
Burnout fat; which is characterized by the following:
Stressed fat; which characterized by:
Here is a list of the top five heaviest people overtime and their weights.
Childhood Obesity
The world today is full of many fat children. Obesity in children can be regarded as having too much body fat. It is important to note that childhood obesity is not the same as childhood overweight. The majority of over obese children are found in the United States of America which is been proven that one-third of their children are obese and the number keep rising continuously. However, children generally have few health problems compared to adults but also, children with overweight turn to be more prone to certain diseases such as chronic heart diseases as well as diabetes.
Children who are obese are usually teased and bullied more than the underweight children as such they are highly prone to depression as well as lower self-esteem than their lower weight peers and may even suffer from social isolations.
However, it is best if every parent should be wise at looking the state of his child as being obese or not. If any parent should see his child in a state of being obese, then it will be necessary to take every necessary means to avoid it. Childhood obesity victims grow up to be obese adults.
Childhood obesity has a lot of causes most of which differ from that seen in adults. This is because childhood obesity usually can start as early as 1 or 2 years after birth.
Below are some of the causes of childhood obesity;
With our changing world, it is very likely that childhood obesity cannot be prevented as many children spend a lot of time watching, playing video games and doing lesser physical activities.
Childhood obesity can lead to the following risk in children; high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, bone problems early on, as well as early heat problems.
Causes of Obesity
The causes of obesity are numerous. But here, I will be rather discuss the what are think are the leading causes of obesity or excessive weight gain.
Diseases caused by Obesity (Disadvantages of Obesity)
The reason why obesity is disadvantageous is because of the diseases it exposes us to. The diseases caused by obesity are a major thread to life than just being obese. Also the disadvantages of obesity encompass not only the diseases caused by obesity but also social issues as well as sexual ineptitude.
Diseases caused by obesity as well as the other disadvantages which are not diseases.
Heart related diseases are one of the major diseases caused obesity or overweight. It is important to put in mind that extra or excessive weight makes one develop high blood pressure or high cholesterol level in the blood which are major causes of heat diseases and even stroke.
It can be seen that a great number of diabetic patients will however become obese. Developing or becoming diabetic however increases your chances of becoming obese. This is due to the simultaneous relationship between diabetes and obesity which can be explained by the fact that many people generally eat certain food types which should only be eaten on regular basis and hence risking their lives of becoming diabetic, then followed by obesity.
Overweight or obese people are more likely to develop gall bladder diseases as well as gallstone. Also, gallstone is not only referred to obese people but also to people losing excessive weight over shorter time periods.
Many people also suffering from obesity may not be due to the aforementioned problems but rather problems associated with arthritis, hyper tension, sleep disk, cancer, breathing problems as well as pregnancy problems.
Many obese people generally suffer from psychological factors related to lack of concentration, sloppy habits toward physical activities as well as tiredness and when put together, these factor have a lot of impact on the personality of the individual’s attitude.
Socially, many obese people are usually underestimated by the public and even by their colleagues usually from the ineptitude, and shapes or inability to put in all necessary workforces in a laborious job.
With obesity being a major cause of lack of energy, excessive time of resting and natural inclination towards sleep as well as difficulty in body movement, obese people are less desiring for sexual practices. Also obese people desire for sexual acts is as less than that of other people with other inabilities or syndromes and as such this can lead to serious problems in a family.
Obesity Surgery
Usually the type of surgery performed on obese patients is the bariatric surgery which is a process with complex procedures. The main aim of obesity surgery is to remove excess fat as well as fat producing cells. However, Obesity surgery generally leads to long term loss in weight but also improves ones recovery from diabetes as well as reduced risk of dead. For every obesity surgery, it is required that the patient in attended by the best surgeons with lots of experience in bariatric surgery so as to avoid complications. Below is a list of some of the obesity surgery procedures.
Treatment for Obesity
There are many different ways to treat obesity some include;
Behavioral Changes; to be really successful in treating yourself from being obese, one need to change the behavior because even after losing weight, you can still regain it if your behavior is not changed. You have to strive to healthy eating as well as the quantity of food eaten daily. You can also put in physical activities to loss more weight. In order to keep yourself busy while at home, you can decide to carryout house chores than let your house help do it for you. In order to keep a tract of how much weight you are losing through your behavioral changes, it is necessary to document each behavior down and make sure to always repeat it daily