Causes and Symptoms of Obesity
Causes Obesity
Scientifically, obesity caused by consuming more calories than needed by the body. Cause of the imbalance between calorie intake and burning is still not clear.
Occurrence of obesity involves several factors:
1. Genetic factors. Obesity tends lowered, so alleged to have genetic causes. But the family members not only share genes but also diet and lifestyle habits, which can promote obesity. Often difficult to separate the lifestyle factors with genetic factors. Recent research shows that the average genetic factors have an impact for 33% of one’s body weight.
2. Environmental factors. Gene is an important factor in many cases of obesity but one’s environment also plays a significant role. These environments include behavioral / lifestyle patterns (eg what to eat and how many times a person to eat and how their activities). A person certainly can not alter the genetic pattern, but he can change eating and activity patterns.
3. Psychic factors. What’s in a person’s mind can affect her eating habits. Many people reacted to his emotions by eating. One form of emotional disturbance is a negative self-perception.This interference is a serious problem in many young women who suffer from obesity, and can cause excessive his awareness of obesity and discomfort in social interaction.
There are two abnormal eating patterns that could be the cause of obesity is eating in a number of very many (binge) and eat at night (syndrome eating at night). Both diets are usually triggered by stress and disappointment.
Binge similar to bulimia nervosa, in which a person eat in a number of very large, the difference in this case did not binge followed by spitting back what has been eaten. As a result, the calories you consume so much. In the syndrome eating at night, is the reduced appetite in the morning and followed by excessive eating, agitation and insomnia at night.
4. Health Factors
Some diseases can cause obesity, including:
1. Hypothyroidism
2. Cushing syndrome
3. Prader-Willi syndrome
4. Several neurological disorders that can cause a lot of eating.
5. Factors Drugs
Certain medications (eg steroids and some of the anti-depression) can cause weight gain.
6. Growth Factors
Adding size or number of fat cells (or both) will increase the amount of fat stored in the body. People with obesity, especially those of obesity in childhood, can have the fat cells up to 5 times more than people whose weight is normal. The number of fat cells can not be reduced, because the weight loss can only be done in a way to reduce the amount of fat in each cell.
7. Physical Activity
Lack of physical activity is probably one of the main causes of the increasing incidence of obesity in the middle of a prosperous society. People who do not actively require fewer calories. Someone who tend to consume high-fat diet and physical activity are not balanced, will be obese.
Obesity Symptoms
Excessive accumulation of fat below the diaphragm and the chest wall can suppress the lungs, causing breathing problems and shortness of breath, even if the patient is only a mild activity. Respiratory problems can occur during sleep, causing cessation of breathing for a while (apneu to sleep), so that by day patients often feel sleepy.
Obesity can cause a variety of orthopedic problems, including lower back pain and aggravate osteoarthritis (particularly in the hip, knee and ankle). Also sometimes used in skin disorders.
A person suffering from obesity have a body surface is relatively more narrow than the weight, so body heat can not be disposed of efficiently and sweat more. Often found in edema (swelling due to accumulation of fluid) in the legs and ankles.
Complications
Obesity is not only unsightly but the eye is a terrible health dilemma. Obesity is directly harmful to one’s health. Obesity increases the risk of several chronic diseases like:
1. Diabetes type 2 (arising in adolescence)
2. High blood pressure (hypertension)
3. Stroke
4. Heart attack (infarct myocardium)
5. Heart failure
6. Cancer (certain types of cancer, such as prostate cancer and colon cancers)
7. Gall-bladder stones and bladder stones
8. Gout and arthritis gout
9. Osteoarthritis
10. Sleep apneu (failure to breathe normally while asleep, causing reduced oxygen levels in the blood)
11. Pickwickian syndrome (obesity accompanied by facial redness, underventilasi and sleepy).
