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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 »
The Diet in The Treatment of Obesity (Part 2)
The most common causes of obesity are overeating first the food and energy, and to a lesser extent: metabolic endocrine disorders (Cushing’s disease, hypothyroidism, etc.)
Certain psychological disorders (Bulimia nervosa), the iatrogenic (related to consumption of certain drugs like steroids, etc.), and in extreme obesity, genetic factors (current research). In all likelihood one of the tasks ahead is to develop preventive level of each country.
These are general recommendations that should be made to the general population from the schools, media, health institutions, etc. They cover a number of indications that must be assumed by the general population (decreased saturated fat intake, increased fiber intake, moderation in intake of sugar, alcohol and salt, etc.) The second approach should be made to individual level, bearing in mind that obesity is a chronic disease and must be treated as such.
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