The Horrible Facts About Obesity

(1) You are packing away more calories than you can work off.

(2) You are not doing enough or any exercises.

(3) Your heart is under immense strain. The telling signs are; chest pains known as angina. Your heart is trying to tell you something is wrong.

(4) Fat is being laid down in and around the heart. This will lead to blocked arteries.

(5) All of your joints are under pressure and being damaged. The outcome is osteoarthritis.

(6) There is strong evidence that obese people suffer from gout.

(7) Your cholesterol levels are rising to a dangerous level.

(8) It is quite certain that you have or soon, will have type 2 diabetes. Which can lead to blindness

(9) Fat is causing irreversible damage to your liver by scarring; this is called cirrhosis of the liver disease. This can only be cured by a liver transplant.

(10) You have high blood pressure which can lead to a stroke or a heart attack.

(11) You suffer from hypertension and unstable temperature.

Death will prevent you getting treatment for any of the above facts and it will be too late.

If you are reading this, then it is not too late, something can be done.

Visit your doctor and take careful note of the treatment he will lay out for you. You owe it to yourself to change your life style starting from today. You are the only master of your destiny, tell yourself that you are going to listen to the doctor, change your eating habits, your life style and try a few little gentle exercises. I know it will be hard to start with but a diet change alone can make a substantial difference.

Adding a few gentle exercises is sure to help with your weight reduction. If you are not embarrassed, go to the local baths and do a couple of lengths of the pool. Swimming is one kind of exercise that puts all of the joints through a good workout. As the water takes the weight off your joints you will find it easier to move about and get the exercise you need.

After a couple of months you WILL notice the changes, your breathing will get a little easier, your temperature will stabilise. Shock yourself by climbing onto the scales and seeing with horror that you are losing weight.

Now isn't that a shame? Don't start running around the block just yet, keep to the diet that your doctor prescribed, and try to increase the exercises and most of all, PLEASE KEEP SMILING.

Gordon Youd.

I like to keep people informed about weight loss problems.

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Obesity: The Disturbing Facts

Obesity is defined as excess total body fat, and is usually seen in people who weight 20% or more over their normal body weight. BMI or body mass index is the most common method of measuring for obesity. A BMI of 25 to 29.9 shows a person to be overweight, and if the measurement reaches 30 or higher, the person is considered obese. Morbid obesity is when a person's BMI is 40 or higher and they are 50% or more above their normal weight.

It is common knowledge that consuming more calories than we burn in a day can lead to obesity, but there are other obesity facts that should be considered.

• Age is the leading factor in obesity. As person ages, their body metabolism lowers, which can result in weight gain in later years if the person is still maintaining the same diet and exercise routine as they did when they were younger.

• Gender is another major factor in obesity. Women have a higher percentage of obesity than men. A women's metabolism is lower than a man's, which means they burn less calories per activity than a man does. In later years when a woman becomes menopausal, their metabolism slows down causing significant weight gain postmenopausal.

• Genetics is an obesity fact whether it's being overweight or thin. Children of biological parents tend to adapt to the same weight and body type as their parents. Studies have shown that a child of an overweight mother has a 75% chance of being overweight as well. The same is true of a child of a thin mother; they also have a 75% chance of being thin.

• Environment also plays a role in obesity. In many cases, a person's environment plays a huge role in whether a person eats and exercises right. If a person is surrounded with other people who do not exercise or eat properly, they tend to follow the same patterns.

• Physical exercise tends to lower a person appetite while raising their metabolism. A person who tends to be inactive has a lower metabolism, and has a larger appetite. Research has also shown that many inactive people tend to eat out of boredom instead of hunger, and is more common in women. In the last 20 year, obesity has increased dramatically due to decrease of physical activity of the general public. Many experts blame this on the electronic generation, where children over the past 20 years have been raised by electronics that are more appealing than simply playing outside. This behavior in children can lead to obesity and will follow them into adulthood.

• Psychology also plays a role in influencing a person activities and eating habits. A person often eats to fill the boredom or in response to negative feeling of sadness or anger. Women tend to overeat during menopause as their hormone levels become imbalanced and they suffer from moments of depression.

• Illnesses such as hypothyroidism can also lead to obesity, which is an over active thyroid that tends to slow a person's metabolism.

• Medications such as steroids and antidepressants can also cause a person to gain weight.

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The Scary New Facts About The Cause For Obesity

The bare fact: if you take more calories than of what is required of your body in a daily basis, the excess will be stored as fat thus gaining weight. Too much of these, over a period of time, will surely make you obese.

There are various causes of obesity like eating habits, heredity or genetics, inadequate physical activity and etc. but the main cause for obesity is eating habits like overeating and improper diet.

A person's metabolism says how the calorie you would take be used. It varies from person to person but if you take more of what your body needs calories will be stored. Simply, the major causes of obesity are taking in more than what your body needs.

You must be of great watch on what you eat. Nowadays, we are more exposed into great food. The most available in the market are those with high amount of calorie and fat. Thus, making it easy to make imbalance one's diet. We usually establish our eating habit, or diet, during the middle of our twenty's. Also, during this stage is where we get busy with life chasing our careers majority tend to reduce our physical activity. And this eating habit we carry until middle age. Simply saying that the causes of obesity slink slowly as our activities slows down and our enthusiasm over food stays the same. Hence, improper eating habit is to blame for obesity.

Another cause for obesity, as mentioned, is inadequate physical activity. Calories are stored as fat. And we use carbohydrates, fat and protein as source of energy but the fuel depends on how the body is using the energy. We all know that fat has two-times of calorie than that of carbohydrates. We can equate that using more fats as fuel means losing more unwanted fats in the body.

We use energy in various physical activities and the fuel depends on what activity we are doing. For higher strength exercise, such as fast pace running, our body uses carbohydrates as fuel rather than fat. It is because of our body's metabolism. While doing high-intensity exercise, the pathways to combust carbohydrates are more accessible than of the pathways for fat which makes carbohydrates as main source of fuel during this kind of exercise. Fat is used as fuel for energy in longer and slower exercise. But when it comes to weight loss, it does not matter what fuel you use - may it be carbohydrates your burning or fat - the essence it that we don't take much more calorie than what we burn.

One surely would want to avoid these causes of obesity, not just because one needs to be in shape for aesthetic value but, being healthy means longer life. One must be conscious not to become obese for some health effects such as abnormal blood clotting, enlargement of the heart, coronary disease, hypertension, diabetes and etc.

The base line now for a healthier body and longer life is to watch what you eat, have a proper diet and exercise and do not take much more calorie than what you are using, this way, you'll surely be living a worry free from causes of obesity. Have a healthy body!

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The Futility of Anti-Obesity Campaigns: Unwelcome Facts About Reality

INTRODUCTION: Few lifestyle topics attract more words than nutrition and within the topic of nutrition, the obesity issue gets a lot of if not most of the attention. Whether the focus is weight loss, optimal health or some related nutritional issue, this seems to be the case.

Historically, nutritional advice and solutions offered for problem states have been more complex than need be. The science behind fundamentals of wise dining is clear. Key principles are neither mysterious nor uncertain. No additional rain forests should be sacrificed for more books (and dissertations) on optimal nutrition.

A sound understanding of wise dining invites an overview of foundation realities. These include unconventional explanations of why so many Americans are fat, what foods make the most difference for better and worse, the pace of body change, misplaced fears about terrorism and the downside of polite public service messages about obesity. Brief summaries on these matters will demonstrate the futility of obesity campaigns as not launched by public health authorities. This essay offers a few unwelcome facts about reality versus how obesity is currently addressed. These observations are based upon findings from multiple recent scientific findings, including a detailed long-term analysis of factors that influence weight gain conducted at Harvard University over the course of two decades. The Harvard research, known as the Nurses' Health Study, involved 120,877 nurses, doctors, dentists and veterinarians who, at the start of the research period, were healthy, not obese or otherwise suffering from any known medical problems. Every two years, the study subjects completed detailed questionnaires about their weight, eating and other habits. The findings were published in June 2011 in The New England Journal of Medicine.

WHY THE UNPRECEDENTED OBESITY? While genetic inclinations may account for weight gain for some, other factors are usually more consequential. Americans who were lean and mean in their youth gain weight over the years little by little and bit by bit. This occurs for other than genetic reasons - influences that are largely social, economic and cultural. All these determinants are reflected in one key bottom-line fact - calories taken in are out of proportion to calories expended. Translated into simplest language, it comes down to this: Too much food and too little exercise is guaranteed to make you fat, eventually. "Eventually" usually sets in by middle age and gets worse after that.

If the obesity epidemic could be explained in a sentence, that sentence would be something like this: "We exercise way too little but the diets we favor constitute an even 'weightier' problem."

FOODS FOR BETTER, FOODS FOR WORSE! Comprehensive studies done at Harvard University, referenced at the end of this commentary, suggest what most wellness promoters have advocated for decades, namely, that exercise and nutrition are the foundation variables for effective weight management. However, other factors affect both in dramatic ways, especially sleep, the company kept, alcohol intake and other lifestyle factors, particularly excessive TV and self-abuse. ("Self-abuse" means smoking, not masturbation.)

I was delighted to find that moderation in all things was shown NOT to be a good idea and the same can now be said, with supportive evidence to back it up, about dieting and other simplistic notions, such as counting calories and avoiding "fatty" foods. The guiding phrase that governs these issues always has been and remains "it depends." Short, spiffy-sounding rules mean little out of context with other variables, which make a key difference concerning health and weight gain over time for better or worse. In medicine, there are no magic bullets - and the same applies to nutrition concerning weight management.

Some foods (e.g., potato chips, potatoes, sugar-sweetened beverages and red meats) are really, really bad. While the best course is to largely avoid the real stinkers, if your taste buds are undisciplined and you simply can not resist putting serious crap in your mouth, at least take remedial steps to mitigate the damage. Such steps include extra exercise in the days before and after such reckless indulgences, and loading up on the best foods (e.g., fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts and yogurt) prior to and after going on a junk bender.

REALTY CREEPS UP, NEVER LEAPS ON, YOUR BODY. Fat does not happen overnight - or in a week or a month. However, it's sneaking up on you if you are not active. By the time you realize its gaining, it has already settled in your stomach, thighs and ass - and it's nearly too late to do much about it. Making a comeback to normal, or better yet, a fit and functional attractive body is a hard road. You can do it, others have done it but it's just so much easier and more rational not to let reality sneak up on you in the first place. Reality, of course, is fat.

FAT IS PROBABLY A GREATER THREAT TO YOU THAN AL-QAEDA. In the sense that fat is more likely to get to you and do some serious damage than any Al-Qaeda maniac (unless you vacation in Pakistan), you should take the dangers from fat seriously and employ evasive action. No more effective deterrent exists than a wellness lifestyle.

I don't like to dwell on the dark side or negative consequences; it is pleasanter and more effective to focus on the positive, joyful and self-reinforcing positive returns from creating and sustaining a wellness mindset and habit pattern. But, sometimes I can't help it so let me simply note that fat in excess is a high-risk fast track to a host of very unpleasant states. For women, these dark side states include but are not limited to heart disease, diabetes, stroke and breast cancer and for men, high risks for heart disease, diabetes and colon cancer. You can use your imagination for the bright side payoffs of avoiding overweight via sound diet and vigorous exercise. However, I'll add one that appeals to vanity - you will always look better when trim than bloated and you won't have as much expense or frustration buying new stuff all the time because your wardrobe no longer fits.

BEING NICE MAY NOT BE THE BEST APPROACH. Structural changes in the culture will be the surer path to obesity reduction than a continued barrage of health education messages from governmental and non-profit institutions. The epidemic of fat that afflicts sufferers and society, the immense costs of treatments and other burdens is well beyond personal action to reverse. People just can't do it, that is, manage wellness lifestyles. The facts of human nature, combined with affluence and the power of big business, overwhelm the slim chances consumers might have had for choosing and sustaining wise lifestyle choices. In short, it's too easy to get fat, too hard to become and stay fit. As noted Aussie nutrition expert Glenn Cardwell has shown, "we love easy - and society now offers nothing BUT easy." In America and other Western nations, nearly everyone can afford (or at least manage access to) energy expenditure substitutes (e.g., cell phones, television, donuts and so on) and democracy assures us the right to ruin ourselves if we choose to do so, which most do.

So, match all these obesity-inducing factors against public service campaigns that offer information (e.g., a model plate to replace a model food pyramid) and what are the chances of arresting the spread of the national lard index? Pretty close to zero, don't you think?

Mr. Cardwell does recognize two variables that history shows always create an average decline in body weight, but neither seems very desirable: War and famine. Both are always attended by other costs or perturbations even worse than an obese society. Quoting Cardwell: "Put another way, there is no obesity solution that has a respect for life. Obesity is the price you pay to live in a free, affluent democratic country."

Well, don't let me discourage you. Do what you can to stay well, fit and focused on look on the bright side of life.

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