The overweight and obesity epidemic is a global problem.
Medical problems associated with obesity include gallbladder disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and osteoarthritis.
If that's not enough of an incentive to lose that excess weight, statistics show that overweight people are typically given well-paying jobs, received lower salaries, received few raises, and are, together, despised by 40% of colleagues and employers.
In 2003, the American Heart Association reported that more American children between the ages of two and four are overweight. That's up 7 the probably worst now, said Dr. Robert H. Eckel, elected president of the association and cardiac professor of medicine at the University of Colorado. The problem of childhood obesity has also increased among school-aged children. Four thousand and thousands of children between the ages of 6 and 11 and 5.3 hundred of thousand in the age group of 12 to 19 have increased by seventy-five percent since 1991.
The eating habits adopted
in childhood can be difficult to change. As a result, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia leading to heart disease, stroke, and diabetes will become the single biggest health problem in countries with people of all ages within 10 years. These are conditions that generally afflict the middle-aged to the elderly population. More than one million new cases of diabetes are already seen each year, according to the American Diabetic Association.
of US adults are overweight and 30% are obese, researchers say Obesity is generally described as being 20% over a person's preferable weight.
- A study by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle found that 50% of overweight women and 70% of obese women are likely to become pregnant while taking the pill. Researchers have proven that a drug is judged higher is the reason, which makes the drug effective for a shorter duration. Or that the drug interacts with the body's hormones in such a way that it gets trapped in body fat instead of circulating in the bloodstream. Studies of obese pregnant women favor that they are 50% more likely to die during pregnancy than those of normal weight. Problems such as miscarriages, gestational diabetes, hypertension, pre-eclampsia, preterm labor, and stillbirth are also more likely. Preliminary evidence proves that babies are also affected and are more likely to be obese themselves later in life.
studies have shown that people who frequented fast food establishments twice a week or more gained 30 pounds over 10 years, compared to 26 pounds for those who frequented them once a week or less. One of the major contributors to the obesity crisis is a sedentary lifestyle, lack of exercise, and the consumption of energy-dense fast food to the region of nutritious natural food products.
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