Obesity (overweight) Obesity

A serious disease called obesity

Many may consider it as a simple command, was seen by some as simply a landscape or an unacceptable distortion of the beauty of our bodies, and remembers little to the danger, however stand idly by is not able to stop it.

Dear all those and you say - watch out for a serious disease called obesity, and should always be remembered as an illness, not a simple disease, but is a disease of serious diseases, it is a disease of modern times.

What is obesity?
Obesity is increasing body weight alone, the natural result of the accumulation of fat in it, and this accumulation results from an imbalance between energy intake from food and energy consumed in the body.


And types of food
Installation does not come out any food items covered for the following nutrients:
1 - Carbohydrates
2 - Fat
3 - proteins
4 - minerals and vitamins
5 - water
Each of these elements play an important role in supplying the body with energy. And different food in the contents of these elements, some foods contain all the nutrients, but to varying degrees, while some of them contain one or two elements only, for example, fruits contain carbohydrates more than any other element, bread and milk contains carbohydrates more then proteins, fat, and meat contain more protein and fat Falcrbohaidarat, sugar contains only carbohydrates.

If the address human carbohydrate crash in the human body into sugars single simple (glucose) for use directly as fuel to provide the human body energy, and stores the part of the liver in the image Gelaikojin and increased need for after that turn to fat stored in the fatty tissues of the body. The proteins they degrade to simple compounds absorbed into the tissues and muscles, or they turn into Glucose for immediate use as energy, or they turn to fat stored in adipose tissue of the human body. But if you eat fat, they either turn into Glucose is used directly for the production of instant energy, or they are stored in fatty tissues of your body.

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Instant energy
What is instant energy and how we calculated the amount we need her?
The energy needed by the human body is divided into two parts:

1. Primary energy is needed by the human body for non-voluntary activities, such as heart rate, breathing, bowel movements, and others. Usually equivalent to 50-70% of the total daily energy needed by a very active person, and 40-50% if the average person's activity, and 30-40% if the person is not active.
2. Energy activity and movement is caused by human use during the day such as walking, swimming and movement in general.

The energy calculated the so-called calorie (kilo watt) Calorie All movements of the human body voluntary or involuntary measured by that standard, the heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree centigrade, note that every one gram of carbohydrate or protein gives about four calories every gram of fat gives about nine calories.

We need the expense of human energy by using the following equation:
If the person is active = weight × 40
If the person is the average activity = weight × 37
If the person is a little activity = weight × 34

And usually takes the average man weight about 2960 calories

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How do you measure obesity?

1. BMI

One of the best ways you can determine if your weight was normal or not is the way the so-called body mass index Body Mass Index or BMI, according to the following equation:
BMI = weight (in Kilograms) ÷ Height (m)

Click here to calculate your body mass index
If the result is less than 20, then the weight will be without natural
If the result was 20-25, the weight is normal
If the result was between 25-30 plus the weight be for natural
If the result was 30-35, the person is obese
If the result is between 35-40, the person is very obese
If the result is more than 40, the person shall be considered excessive in obesity

Example to calculate body mass index according to equation (weight in Kilograms divided height in meters square) If we assume that weight 98 kg, height 172 cm be Alnetje:

* Convert length from cm to m = 172 cm ÷ 100 = 1.72 m
* Convert length from meters to square meters = 1.72 × 1.72 = 2.96 m 2 (square meters)
* If the body mass index = 98 kg ÷ 2.96 = 33

This indicates that the person is obese

However, there are some exceptions to the use of body mass index, for example, is not limited to:

* Children in the process of growth
* Pregnant women
* People with strong muscles Kariyadien

2. Tape measure
Bar is a measurement of the techniques used in the measurement of weight, by measuring waist circumference. The fat around the waist is more dangerous than fat around the buttocks or in any other part of the body. Backed down waist measurement means retreat or decrease the amount of fat in the body. The table below is important evidence in this regard:
High-risk sex, the risk of severe physical
Males more than 94 cm over 102 cm
Females are more than 80 cm over 88 cm

What causes obesity?

1. Kind of food: where it is certain that devour food Bsarat high temperatures with non-payment of these calories lead to accumulation of fat in human body fat has noted that the higher efficiency of carbohydrates and proteins in the farm in the adipose tissue. The best example of this is that the spread of so-called fast food rich in calories in Western countries and other countries led to the prevalence of obesity and associated diseases in many parts of the world were not showing before. If we want to be honest with ourselves why it is the first and most important, which is the only cause in 90% of cases of obesity
2. Lack of activity and movement: It is known that obesity is rare in people Aldaibi movement or who require their ongoing activity, but must also know that the low volume of activity alone is not sufficient reason for the occurrence of obesity. There is no doubt that the activity and movement of great benefit in improving human health in general and can be summed up activity and movement in one word is a sport. Studies have indicated that the role of sport in reducing the proportion of fat and blood Glucose also have a role in the activity of insulin and the body tissues receive him, but this ratio is large enough to draw in weight loss? The answer to this question is not, as the studies conducted in this area was mixed to the extent that it can not be recommended for obese sport as a basis for reducing the weight, but it can be helpful, especially to reduce the contouring of the body fat, which reduced weight. And the example that if you practiced swimming or running for an hour without stopping, you will spend about 170 calories if stopped and then drank a glass of Pepsi and a small piece of chocolate, it will give you 500 calories.
3. Psychological factors: the situation prevalent in women than in men. When subjected to severe psychological problems is reflected in the form of eating too much food.
4. Imbalance in the endocrine glands: the cause is always appropriate in cases of obesity, it is usual and common to hear to say (I've said the doctor told me that she Bgddi endocrine disruption). And again and even be honest with ourselves, it's very rare, and not the reason in most cases.
5. Genetics: Also you should know that this factor alone is not responsible for obesity may not be responsible at all.

From the above it is clear that the most important reason for the occurrence of obesity is intake of more food than we need.

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Obesity and diseases
It is now appropriate that we recognize the complications of the disease:

1. Obesity, heart disease and sudden death
Did you know that it is rare to find centenarians are obese!, This theory may be the sort of fallacy, but a general indication of the obese obesity and the importance of reducing weight. The weight is excessive overload on the heart and lungs to the setting calls for each effort multiplier.

Despite the lack of knowledge of the relationship between obesity and heart disease and hardening of the arteries but it is an existing relationship, although this relationship is also about the nature and type of food covered in fat because it tends to eat foods rich in fat or fried more than a tendency to eat proteins, carbohydrates and eating such items raise cholesterol in the blood and this is the first risk factor for heart disease.

Concerning the relationship of obesity, heart disease and sudden death is a relation that depends on the duration of obesity or age of a person. Some studies have found that the persistence of obesity for more than 10 years the percentage of exposure to heart disease and sudden death, especially when obesity in childhood or young adulthood in the first.
2. Obesity and diabetes
There is no doubt that there is a strong relationship between obesity and diabetes (non insulin dependent) is not that we should not overlook that there are other reasons such as genetics, sex and geographic locations, etc., but what is the relationship of obesity with diabetes?

Each cell receives the materials, the hormone insulin, which burn glucose to produce energy of these materials is called insulin receptors and the absence of these receptors or say the number of insulin will not work on this cell and therefore would not be utilized glucose in the blood and so are represented. And a fixed rate of these receptors on the cell fatty acids increased the size of the normal cell as is the case in the two countries, the number of receptors are few
For large-sized cell area. Our advice to all debt and reduce weight where it is optimal treatment for patients with sugar as the weight reduction leads to improvement of the situation and received the secretion of insulin in these patients.
3. Obesity, high blood pressure
Suffice it to say that the rate of hypertension among obese up to three times the rate between the ordinary and to reduce weight while reducing the intake of salt in blood pressure Mrtfie good case in their pressure limits of up to 50%.
4. Obesity, joints and ligaments
Obesity also overload the joints of the body and Orbtth and appears in the form of the pain of multiple joints.
5. Obesity and the skin
Obesity increases the amount of folds in the skin and is, therefore, be susceptible to skin infections and fungal infections and bacterial as well as intolerance to hot weather