1 Reduced Life Expectancy
The first problem of obesity to focus on one that many overweight people think about at least - you're less likely to live a long life, if you're too fat. life insurance companies have known this for a long time. They know that life insurance purposes, the fatter you are the worse the risk that you have them.
Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, it is estimated that, depending on how you calculate the number was between 112 000 and 380 000 excess deaths from obesity-related disease in the United States during 2000. Whichever figure is correct, or something in between, it's terrible statistics, far worse than road deaths (43 000) or terrorism (0) for that year. Even young people are paying the price for their obesity. Teens entering adulthood with a BMI greater than 40 to their life expectancy reduced by up to 13 years for men and 8 years for women. This is a big part of my life lost before they even adults. The risk of premature death from obesity is similar to the risk of smoking.
2 Medical illness
is something that the pathogen causing the disease. Obesity is a consummate pathogens. It causes or exacerbates a wide range of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke, hypertension, sleep apnea, depression, a number of cancers including breast, gynecological and gastrointestinal malignancies, abnormal levels of fat in the blood, the syndrome ovary, liver inflammation, and osteoarthritis of the lower spine and joints that bear weight, such as the hips, knees and feet.
Also, obese people are more at risk of accidents at work, at home or on the road, and are more likely to suffer sudden unexplained death.
3 Physical limitations
morbidly obese individuals often can not do things that others can do. Sports activities are mostly outdoors, which excludes them from many family fun. Physical activity of any kind, can be quite difficult due to shortness of breath or just plain tired, so that even housework or working standard is a challenge.
Most morbidly obese people can easily buy clothes, and some have difficulty getting in and out of the car, or in a seat on the bus or at the theater. Aircraft travel can be a major inconvenience. You may need to seek an extension of the belt. You May not be able to reduce the table below. You might see a person assigned seat next to a flight attendant and go look for another place. Just the thought of these things happening, you can put off trips.
flexibility is reduced. Fingers progressively out of reach or even out of sight, making cutting toenails shared responsibility. Personal hygiene becomes a problem if you can not get toilet paper or towels to all the nooks and crannies.
4 Social isolation
Many people who are morbidly obese to feel uncomfortable in public. Usually the feeling that other people are looking at them and commenting on your weight, and difficulty in dressing products are good and easy moving. They prefer to retreat - to live with her family at home, rarely venturing into public view
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This May Help them cope with the embarrassment, but denies them equal opportunity to work, to join in activities outside the family and friends to join the association. It is not surprising, therefore, to discover that the morbidly obese have low self-esteem and feeling worthless and useless. It is common for obese people suffer depression. They hate their appearance. They feel that they are unattractive to their partner or children, and others.
Obese people suffer social bias, prejudice and discrimination as a result of their appearance. Society stigmatizes obesity. Obesity is probably the only area left where discrimination is still considered acceptable. Unfaborable remarks about someone because of their sex, race or disability are not acceptable in our society today, and rightly so. However, unfavorable remarks about a person's obesity are still OK. This attitude is implanted early. When children are shown a silhouette of obese people they describe as a person ugly, dirty, lazy, stupid, dishonest, weak-willed, clumsy liar and a crook.
5 Economic considerations
Obesity costs the community a lot because of the high health care needs of obese. These costs are both direct costs of research and treatment of diseases associated with obesity, such as doctor visits, tests, medications and hospitalizations, and indirect costs such as lost wages due to illness or disability, or loss of future earnings due to premature death. In the United States, these costs have been estimated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to be 117 billion U.S. dollars for 2000. It was composed of 61 billion U.S. dollars in direct costs and 56 billion U.S. dollars for indirect costs. The major contributors to the overall cost of heart disease ($ 9,000,000,000), osteoarthritis (21 billion dollars), high blood pressure (four billion U.S. dollars), gallbaldder Disease (3 billion), a cancer of the breast, cervix and colon ($ 7 billion). Almost 40 million working days were lost per year. It is estimated that in 2000 in the United States, 63 million people are visiting your doctor because of problems related to obesity.
Whichever way you look at these numbers, we spend a lot on obesity. If these costs can be reduced by weight loss, it will pay for the full treatment.
Abstract
Obesity is indeed a problem. This is the worst cause of disease in the Western world. This leads to premature death in more people than almost any other cause. What life have hardly been reduced in quality due to the physical and social problems generated by the disease. And it costs us as a community a lot of money because hte direct and indirect effects on health problems. If weight loss is even handled some of these problems, and if we can find an acceptable and effective way to lose weight, we should really go for it.