If You Haven’t Noticed, Obesity’s Contagious

If somebody said to you that obesity was contagious, what would your reaction be? You’d probably be totally incredulous. How on earth can obesity be contagious? Well, a group of researchers at Harvard Medical school have carried out a study which involved 12,000 people and their conclusion is that obesity is contagious. This piece of research has put the cat among the pigeons in a very big way. Read more

Obesity: Statistics Speak for Themselves

There is a tremendous discussion going on in the media across the globe about losing weight. Each story the media brings seems to bear conflicting information and it’s small wonder that people are confused about what’s healthy, what’s junk food and what’s not. Having said that, there are growing concerns worldwide about obesity. The statistics speak for themselves.

Approximately 280,000 adult deaths in the United States alone are attributed to obesity annually, compared to 35,000 deaths due to guns, and 25,000 due to car accidents, in other words it looks like the foods we eat by our own selection or choosing, kill far more of us than guns and automobiles combined.

Overweight individuals have an increased risk of developing one or more of the following conditions:

• heart disease and stroke
• hypertension
• non-insulin dependent or type 2 diabetes
• osteo-arthritis
• sleep apnea and other breathing problems

The 1996 Surgeon General’s Report on Physical Activity and Health shows that more than 60 percent of adults are not participating in the recommended 30 minutes a day of moderate physical activity most days of the week. The report stresses that physical activity need not be strenuous to achieve health benefits. As recently as 1990, 10 percent or fewer adult residents (in certain States) were obese now report levels doubling this. In the latest edition, three States estimate that a third of all adults are obese.

Many believe this problem is tied to increased consumption of snacks, soft drinks, and fast foods, increased sedentary activities - such as watching TV and playing video games - and decreased opportunities for exercise and physical activity.[32]

Renewed emphasis on academic achievement in the educational system has reduced the time and space available for active play as well as for structured physical education. Long workdays and single parent households limit time for physical activity.[33]

The state action plan addresses six key interventions: increase consumption of fruit and vegetables, increase physical activity, increase breastfeeding, other dietary concerns, decrease TV/computer screen time and parental involvement.[34]

And while most of the major preventable causes of death showed declines or little change since 1990, deaths due to poor diet and physical inactivity increased 33 percent.

Diabetes is another of those unfortunate circumstances which has brought about drastic changes for 150 million people around the world. What is even worse, the number of sufferers is expected to grow each year. Diabetes is another disease of the affluent and reducing obesity can control the risk.

Obesity doesn’t happen overnight, it happens over time, when the energy we take in by eating is out of balance with the energy we burn doing physical activity. There are things we can do to prevent overweight and obesity, but perhaps these people are in need of not only regular exercise. A situation, a trauma, buried so deep - can cause any amount of heaven knows what kind of psychological problem inside us, that drives us on the one hand to withdraw and comfort ourselves and on the other to destroy ourselves in this way.

30 minutes most days of the week is good, and will help to prevent and treat obesity. Keep it fun and safe. Physical activity does not need to be strenuous - it just has to be for us to enjoy a long and quality filled life.

[32] http://assembly.state.ny.us/member_files/051/20030716/
[33] http://www.dhs.ca.gov/cdic/copi/html/problem.htm
[34] http://chfs.ky.gov/dph/ach/ns/cdc+obesity+grant.htm

How Obesity Causes Most Other Health Problems

Obesity is the one of the biggest health problems. Because it is the host of other serious medical conditions. These type of obesity related medical conditions engage in a vicious cycle that wont end until remedied. Some examples are listed below:

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is one of these medical conditions. The hearts of obese individuals have to work much harder to supply all that extra fat with oxygen, leading to the hardening of arteries.

Due to cholesterol and other fatty deposits, the arteries become narrower and this creates choke points for the blood and causes strokes, heart attacks and erectile dysfunction.

The natural blood pressure exercise program created by me has proved to normalize blood pressure even for severely overweight person. The cholesterol building and all other factors of being overweight are not dealt with.

Another problem caused by obesity is diabetes. The extra fat in the body creates a resistance to insulin , and causes blood sugar level to rise. Its tough to know where the problem can pass down the line.

The reason why sleep apnea and snoring are caused is due to the excess fat present on the chest and neck area. If you are suffering from sleep apnea then you stop breathing for several seconds, several times an hour, while asleep.

The heart begins to work overtime and leads to hypertension as the body receives less oxygen.

The next medical condition is Osteoarthritis (pain in the joints caused by the extra weight),gallstones, cancer etc and the list goes on because there’s a lot more.

Obesity can even cause psychosocial tension in the individual, since the stigma of being “fat” always stings and many more.

Unable to bear the torment, obese teenagers have gone as far as to favor suicide.

I knew these things for many years and that there had to be some way to curb the rise of obesity in today’s society.

That’s why I’ve spent the past several months developing my new Weight Loss Program. With it, overweight individuals can enjoy lasting freedom from a host of illnesses by cutting down on the big underlying cause - obesity.

There is no work out or diet involved with this program

 

About the Author:

After years of research, Christian Goodman found a new revolutionary way to lose weight. His Weight Loss Breeze program has helped many people to lose weight. Learn more about Christian’s solutions on his Natural health alternative site

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