The beginning of the obesity is very simple – only few extra kilos, with paying a little attention to it, can deliver not only unattractive figure but range of illnesses as well.
Fact
In USA from the excessive obesity suffer more than 20% of citizens, Europe – 15%. Statistics predict that the average obesity weight index increases for about 0.5 kilograms every year.
Obesity is illness
Extra weight and over obesity are one of the main health problems about what citizens and doctors of the developed countries are concerned for years. It has two reasons:
Medical reasons – extra weight have an impact on the progression of many illnesses and on the level of mortality rate. Research results of the World health organization alarm: amount of the money spent for illnesses increases because illnesses which were typical for elderly people, in our days can be found in younger people and one the main reasons for that are extra weight and obesity.
Aesthetic reasons – they dictate how must look healthy and successful man. Obesity is an illness with one difference from others, not only their relatives and friends but corpulent people themselves don’t think that they are ill.
Why is forming an extra weight?
Human is body is made as an energy using mechanism, which for healthy man works based on easy formula: unused energy become a fat. Obesity is not natural phenomenon because it doesn’t conform to survival law dictated by the nature. In animal kingdom and primeval society nothing was suchlike. This human phenomenon its development begun in big civilizations, between rich, that’s why during the centuries formed an opinion that corpulence is the result of the good life.
Researches confirm that in modern developed countries where health is one of the priorities and normal body weight is seen as good tone, increased body mass indicates the lowest stratum of the society and lack of education in eating and health. Wrong food and sedentary lifestyle are the main reasons of the overweight what cause range of the illnesses.
Factors which stimulate the extra weight and obesity:
Biological – heredity: in 70% of cases one of parents has increased body weight Physiological – weight increases when the age is increasing Psychological – increase of the appetite is caused by negative emotions, stress, boredom Social – pressure of advertisement (fast food ads, unhealthy drinks and food etc.) Sedentary lifestyle – lack of physical activity, personal car and public transport culture etc.
Obesity types
Androydal (male) or apple type. Forms mainly on upper part of the body, with affect on the face, neck, chest, part off tummy above the naval and the waist. Typical for many men when belly hangs down over the waistbelt but can be seen on women as well. Androydal obesity imperils the health because it can cause the nuisance of the metabolism which causes the sugar diabetes, hyperinsulinism, heart and blood vessel illnesses, high blood pressure – hypertension.
Ginoydal (female) or pear type. Mostly forms on women. Fat accumulate in lower part of the body: bottom of the tummy, hips, bottom and femoral. Do not cause serious nuisance of the metabolism but hastens an incompetence of veins what can be tampered by vein varicose.
Deep internal obesity. The most dangerous form of the obesity for health because sometimes it is not even noticeable. It can have even they whose weight is normal. Fat don’t settle down under the skin but in thick layer cover organs, settle down in abdominal cavity – they can be discovered only by ultrasonic investigation or during the operation.
