Have you ever wondered if you have the needed weight your body could carry? If your Body Mass Index is over 30 then you are considered to be obese. Obesity is a medical condition whereby your body has accumulated so much fat to the extent that it has a negative impact on your health. It is important to study your body mass index very often to keep track of your weight health. Majority of people suffer from obesity unknowingly.
Several factors lead to obesity. Eating too many calories is one of the causes of obesity. The recent generation consumes a lot of food compared to previous generations. In as much as there are several campaigns to create awareness on healthy eating habits, it is so unfortunate that majority of us overeat. From statistics, a 17% increase from 1980 to 2000 of the adult population suffers from obesity in the US. To add on this, people live sedentary lives. Less movement actually won’t help in burning the calories. Not sleeping enough also increases your risk to being obese. Lack of enough exercise and lack of a balanced diet are some of the factors that cause obesity. To those whom we can’t blame, obesity runs in their genes.
It is a person’s choice to prevent obesity. Change of diet and workouts are the main treatments. Reduce the energy dense foods you eat and do exercise a lot on a daily basis. Seek medical advice on which medicines you can take to lose weight. Weight loss surgery is very common these days and surely helps in cutting so much weight and requires less or no effort at all. Combining two hormones into one molecule can also be used to treat Obesity. This has been proven by scientists in the medical field. When digestive and oestrogen hormones are combined they give very promising results in cubing obesity in animals.