Obesity

General information 

   Obesity is a very well-known medical condition around the world. It occurs when there is excessive body fat in a person’s body according to his or her height. Having extra fat will make you of course gain weight, and become a less mobile person. Normal people can gain different behavior after becoming overweight, such as being lazy and unproductive. There are also the diseases that an overweight person might get.

Levels of fatness

   Being a person with extra fat on your body doesn’t mean you’re obese. There are levels of fatness, which can show the amount of fat in your body and at what level of obesity you are. The first is overweight, which is the lowest level. The next level is obese, and super obese is the third level, which is also the highest of them all.

How does it happen?

   As is known, a combination of excessive food energy intake with a lack of physical activity explains most obesity cases, but there are a limited number of cases where a person becomes overweight; it can be caused by genetics, medical reasons, or eating disorders. Even more, the increasing reliance on cars and mechanized manufacturing can be considered as a cause of being overweight.

Effects on Health

   The increase of body weight and the excessive body fat on any person will always give negative results. Excessive body weight is associated with various diseases, mostly cardiovascular diseases. An overweight person becomes less energetic and less mobile over time, resulting in a lazy habit and leading to the situation of being overweight, or, even worse, obese. The road that an overweight person takes can sometimes not be restructured to make him go back, as if you are adding more water to the mud. There is also the type 2 diabetes. Obesity is thought to be the primary cause of type 2 diabetes. This illness makes the person urinate more frequently and increases thirst and hunger; it can also result in blurry vision. There is also the OSA, obstructive sleep apnea. It is commonly accompanied by snoring, but can make you have difficulty in breathing too. An individual is rarely aware of having this kind of illness, since he is asleep at that moment and it can be recognized by the others witnessing the individual. There is also asthma, which is characterized by shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing and chest tightness. There are more diseases such as certain types of cancer and osteoarthritis.  

(Obesity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dec. 2012. )

The Solution

   There are two things that will help you reduce obesity, you and the food industry. As an individual, you can eat more fruit and veggies, switch to whole grain bread, reduce eating fast food, reduce the fat, sugar, and salt content of processed foods. If you are going to shop for food, don’t go shopping while you’re hungry, or else it would make you feel the need to buy a lot of food, thinking that buying one thing isn’t enough. Reducing obesity doesn't only include changing what kind of food you eat; you must change your behavior too and train more. You can go to a gym or walk more often in the sunshine. As for what the food industry can do, they can reduce the amount of fat, sugar, or salt in their products and make diet food, such as Diet Pepsi or Diet Coke. Also having a more nutritious choice of their products can serve all types of customers they have. They can also give even more choices by adding products that don't include anything that any of their consumers are allergic to.

Conclusion

   There are people all around the world that are overweight and these people have made a goal of becoming a better person and to change themselves. Being overweight doesn't mean you will stay like this forever; people can change the way they look and how they behave, too. Anyone can become fit and healthy. A lot of people look at other people’s success stories and how they were obese and then became fit and good looking, and if you doubt yourself, you can always ask for help from your friends, or maybe get a personal trainer that can be always by your side. Even though this road can take a lot of time, it doesn't mean you can’t reach the goal.

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