Obesity: Health Problems

     Obesity can lead to serious health disorder that can be life threatening. Obesity will cause the motility and metabolic rate decreases which in turn, the person become more obese and get serious medical problems.

     Obesity will cause cardiovascular diseases. The heart of obese people has to work harder to pump blood into vascular system. However, accumulation of fat will cause the heart is not capable to pump enough blood to organs and this will lead to heart failure. In order for the system to keep functioning, it is constantly getting under more and more pressure and finally will cause the enlarged heart. The arteries carry oxygenated blood will clog with layer of fats and hence it is difficult for the blood to pass through the constricted inner passage with normal flow and pressure. This results in situations known as high blood pressure. When the insufficient blood flows to heart muscle, it will lead to heart attack. Patient which is obese and have high blood pressure usually will experiencing high cholesterol. The deposition and calcified of cholesterol in arteries will lead to atherosclerosis and stroke.

      Once of the common health disorder cause by obesity is diabetes. It had been well established that obesity promotes insulin resistance through the inappropriate inactivation of a process called gluconeogenesis, where the liver creates glucose for fuel and which ordinarily occurs only in times of fasting. Diabetes will cause damage to eyes, kidney, blood vessels and nerves and usually the damage is irreversible and chronic that will lead to death.

Another health disorder cause by obesity is osteoarthritis and pain in joints. Osteoarthritis is caused by the wearing out of the substance between the joints which is called cartilage. Once it is no longer there, the bones start rubbing against one another thus causing a great amount of pain.

       Many obese people also have difficulty breathing (Respiratory disorder ). Some suffer from sleep apnea. This is a sleep disorder in which the patients stop breathing for short durations of time while asleep and end up with an oxygen deficiency. In extreme obesity cases, patients also end up with Hypoventilation Syndrome. They can’t breathe normal levels of oxygen.

      Obesity also will leads to several cancers for example gastroinstestinal cancers, gall bladder cancer, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, colorectal and prostate cancer. It is because the imbalanced hormone due to present of excess fat in body that cause cancer listed.

     Not only physical disorder, mental disorders also cause by obesity. Obese people usually facing depression due to they less likely to enjoy recreational activities because they worried about their looks. In order to make themselves happy, they eat more and this make thing even worst because they become more obese. In general, obese patient more likely to suffer from depression when they live a lonelier life and try to justify their loneliness by uncontrollable eating habit.

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http://www.obesityarticles.net/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090621143236.htm