What Is The Problem Of Being Overweight?

Look around … see any overweight person? Unfortunately, yes. According to statistics, more than half of the population (53%) suffers from overweight or obesity.

This is a growing problem that will overwhelm the health system. The numerous health problems and chronic diseases related to overweight and obesity are associated with already very significant costs. The costs of medical treatment can be up to twice or three times what is usual, so you can see that it is vital to lose weight if you are overweight.

A person who has 40% more weight, are twice as likely to die prematurely, that a person of normal weight. This reality has to do with the fact that obesity creates conditions favorable to the development of several diseases, including:

• Heart disease and stroke;

• High blood pressure (hypertension);

• Diabetes type II;

• Cancer;

• Gallbladder disease or gallstones;

• Osteoarthritis;

• Respiratory problems such as sleep apnea and asthma.

It is agreed by consensus that a person with 20% overweight, can significantly benefit from losing weight.

There are factors that trigger obesity, modifiable, such as poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyle, and non-modifiable factors, such as a child being born ever likely to be obese. In this case, despite the factor is not modifiable, can and must act always with healthy lifestyles, to avoid reaching morbid obesity in adulthood.

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The best way to prevent obesity is to act in the expectant mother. The mother should have a healthy weight before pregnancy and maintain the normal weight during the entire pregnancy, in accordance with the normal evolution of pregnancy, a healthy weight. If the mother is obese, the likelihood of the child is born with a propensity to be obese and therefore have diseases associated with excess weight is high, such as diabetes.

Obesity Health Problems

Thus, we are facing a public health problem, in which the ideal is to act as soon as possible. Only then can we eradicate this disease, obesity.