Friday, January 11, 2008

Obesity

Introduction:

Many of us love to eat food high in calories but do we know that eating excessive fats can cause a disease known as obesity?

Obesity is a condition in the body wherein a person accumulated an excessive body fat. This condition cannot be done in only a few hours, it takes years when a body is considered obese. Anyway obesity is not the same with overweight; the latter is overweight with excess fats. Overweight is the excess pounds of the body.

Causes:

Obesity is gaining too much body fat because of too much calories needed in the body to burn it off. An obese person has several factors to consider such as:

1. Genes – obesity may be inherited from the parents. Some of the genes in our body tell you to burn off calories. Various people may have to burn calories slower or faster.

2. Obesity runs in families somehow because of series of beliefs that really has a health impact in becoming overweight or obese.

3. Emotions – to people there are different coping techniques one which is eating just to take away those stressful thoughts in their minds they can’t think of anything but to eat more food high in calories thus leading to obesity. So be stress free its so nice to be happy.

4. Lifestyle – our lifestyle affects our becoming obese, sedentary kind of lifestyle typically is really a great impact. We tend to not move anymore from watching television shows, playing in computers, working with no time to relax. It seems we have no time to care for ourselves, living in an easy type of lifestyle because of being busy instead of cooking healthy foods at home we buy now in restaurants who usually offer higher calorie intakes.

Treatments:
There are so many kinds of treatment possible to obese people one of which is to take diet pills, who nowadays are very famous because they offer schemes that are easy to loss fats or excess pounds in the body.

Exercise is also good and a risk free thing to do to get that excess calories taken out of our body. A good exercise would really help to make our body in good shape, for us to have an active lifestyle, and be stress free.

Liposuctions, with the edge of the modern technology this instruments to trim those fats are now possible so hurry up and have a treatment to your nearest hospital and get rid of those fats that really are not really needed by the body, with the help of your surgeonist.

Heart diseases

Our heart circulates blood in our body; they give nutrients to every organ to function well. It is like a train that goes from one station to another gathering nutrients and then letting them go to their respective places.

If there is an obstacle in one of the station then heart diseases most likely will occur. Like blockage, or the stoppage of blood in one or more arteries, clogs and the beating of the heart already stopped.

Effects of High Protein Diet

There are several studies revealing that a high percentage of protein to carbohydrates has impact, this will pose a certain risks to diseases, the compositions of the body metabolisms, blood lipids, glucose stability might somewhat be destabilized.

On the other hand, high ratio of protein in foods and diets formulas varied in saturated fats. So the current research studied by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition is about the effects of the decrease in calory uptakes associating that in the high carbohydrate diet.

The results showed that the energy restricted high protein, low fat diets is providing the nutritional and metabolic advantages that are the same and or somewhat greater than in the results seen in the high carbohydrate diets.

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