According to a study done in 2003–2006 and 2007–2008 by National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) that one third of adults in the United States are obese.
So what is obesity?
Obesity is defined when a person has a body mass index BMI is >30 kg/m2 which is your weight in kilograms divided by your height in meter squared.
Causes
- Genes and heredity
- Emotions that make people over eat
- Unhealthy lifestyle and bad eating habits
- Sex: Men are more prone to obesity
- Medical conditions such as hypothyroidism
Complications
Several diseases are caused by obesity such as Diabetes type II. The most risk full disease is that obesity causes cardiac diseases and an extra load on the heart thus resulting in heart failure.
Prevention is very important however if someone is suffering from obesity he/she should lose weight and start to have a healthier life style that includes exercise. In addition to that surgeries can be done to life threatening patients such as Roux en Y.
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Don't you think that it's dangerous for the patient to undergo a surgery to lose weight?? Shouldn't this be done through a healthy diet??
ReplyDeleteyes but if you noticed i said that surgeries can be done to life threated patients that do not respond to diet. He should undergo a surgery and then begin a healthy diet with excercise.
ReplyDeleteI think that first of all we should follow a homogenious diet, and only in the case if this fails we could look to other possibilities as surger.
ReplyDeleterony first of all there is nothing called a "homogenious diet" and as i said before twice that IF the patient is not responding to diet and his life is threatned by obesity he SHOULD have a surgery such as bipass or Roux En Y.
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