Silhouettes and waist circumferences representing optimal, overweight, and obese
Causes:
- Excessive food.
3. Genetics
4. A few cases are caused primarily by geneS, endocrine disorders, medications, or mental disorder. The
view that obese people eat little yet gain weight due to a slow metabolism is not generally supported.
Complications:
- Obesity dramatically increases the risk of type 2 diabetes.
- It can damage your liver, a condition called fatty liver disease.
- Obese people may pass out or vomit whilst exercising,due to the added physical stress.
- Obesity also can give you heart decease,stroke and certain type of cancer.
- Obesity could rob you of 20 years of health -NHS.
→ 30% of young people between the ages of 11-15 are overweight in the UK.
→ Young people who are obese are 65% more likely to be bullied by their peers.
→ The 3rd most popular reason young people contacted childline in 2014 was due to physical and
cyber bullying.
→ Obese people who get bullied by their physical appearance and leads to mental illness.
The main way to be healthy:
- Healthy theme classes.📕
- Sport section.⚽
- Train section.🏃
- Obesity is mostly preventable through a combination of social changes and personal choices.Changes to diet and exercising are the main treatments.Diet quality can be improved by reducing the consumption of energy-dense foods, such as those high in fat or sugars, and by increasing the intake of dietary fiber.Medications can be used, along with a suitable diet, to reduce appetite or decrease fat absorption.If diet, exercise, and medication are not effective, a gastric balloon or surgery may be performed to reduce stomach volume or length of the intestines, leading to feeling full earlier or a reduced ability to absorb nutrients from food.