Why pay attention to your body weight?

We all know that being obesity is no good for our appearance. It is even worse for our body’s internal systems and increase the risk for several diseases. From my last post, you have already found out your body mass index (BMI) which is based on your height and weight. Calculating the BMI to know whether your weight puts you at risk or you are at a healthy weight. Once again, do remember that elevated BMI alone is not an adequate measurement of your risk for diseases. According to the BMI, if your BMI is between 25 and 30, you are considered overweight. But you will be considered obese if your BMI is 30 or even greater. People who are obese have a much higher risk for many major diseases, such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes and more.

The followings are the diseases associated with obesity:

Reduce immune defenses – Excess weight may reduce immune defenses.

Heart Disease – Obesity increase the risk for Heart disease because increase the pressure in the body increase the pressure along the blood vessel walls. This pressure and added weight erode the blood vessel walls and make obese people to have heart attack.

High Blood Pressure (hypertension) - Overweight people have risk for gallbladder disease 2-3 times greater than the healthy weight people.

Type II Diabetes – The body overworks with breaking down the sugars using natural insulin. Because the weight is a great factor associated with type II diabetes, therefore obese people have greater risk for diabetes.

Gallbladder disease (gallstones) – Overweight people have risk for gallbladder disease 2-3 times greater than the healthy weight people.

Cancer – For example, breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and pancreatic cancer. Excess body fat increases the cancer risk.

Metal Health - obesity is more likely to lead to problems with depression and other metal diseases. Some Doctors believed that obese people are more likely to develop chronic depression.

Low Fertility – Many Doctors have stated that higher BMI leads to a greater incidence of reproductive cancers, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), and other conditions that contribute to infertility. In addition, there is a link between infertile, obese women is some sort of reversible endocrine problem, such as a thyroid imbalance.

Other Health Problems from Obesity – For example, low IQ, eating disorders, and early puberty.

From the above, can you realize how serious problem is to obesity? If you have excess fat, let’s take action to control your body weight and get a healthy body weight to stay away from those diseases.

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