Obesity
Dangers of Being Overweight in Old Age
Obesity and overweight are defined as excessive body energy reserves, mainly as fat, although it is known that in both cases the health is at risk, older adults increases the risk. This may be the time to take action to prevent future problems, do not you think?
Increased body fat is always manifested by weight gain, but this does not mean that all people who weigh more than what is considered normal to be obese. To find anthropometric indicators have been established as weight, height, thickness of skin folds and circumferences (waist and hip).
However, body mass index (BMI) is a medical tool that determines how much a person has exceeded the reserves of energy as fat. For BMI, divide the number of its weight in kilograms by the result of his height squared, if the shunt is less than 24.9 kg/m2 your weight is normal, if it goes from 25 to 29.9 kg/m2 means overweight. On the other hand, obesity is defined in three classes: the first corresponds to a BMI between 30 and 34.9 kg/m2, second, or risk, 35 to 39.9 kg/m2 and the latter in the sounding the alarm of danger, the index exceeds 40. Read the rest of this entry »
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Psychological Problems for Obesity
It is known that obesity favors the development of cancer, diabetes, hypertension, heart attacks and brain, sleep disorders and tear on joints, but not always talk about the adverse consequences that the emotional health and self-esteem of the individual.
According to reports issued by the World Health Organization, obesity is one of the top 10 challenges facing medical science in all nations, because it triggers life-threatening diseases, especially the alarming development that has had in recent decades. For example, it suffices to say that 61% of American adults have some degree of overweight, while in Germany half of its population is under the same circumstances.
For obvious reasons, the current prevention campaigns emphasize undesirable consequences of overweight such as heart attack (death of tissue in heart and brain by blockage or rupture of blood vessels), diabetes (accumulation of glucose in the blood due to complete or partial impairment secretion and insulin action) and cancer (uncontrolled multiplication of abnormal cells that form tumors), but it is noteworthy that many experts also emphasize the impact that obesity has on the behavior and emotions of the sufferer and even stress that psychological factors are decisive for many people resist treatment or abandon it shortly after starting. Read the rest of this entry »