You can see the complexity from the following partial list of known factors that affect weight gain. Genetic factors affect many functions related to obesity. These factors include how we use and store calories, how many calories are needed to make a person feel full, and how fat cells increase in an individual.
Physical activity and lack of exercise certainly increase the risk of becoming obese. Genetic factors may affect our inclination to exercise. However, many other factors can be involved in decreasing physical activity such as lack of free time, an injury and chronic illness.
Even increased body fat itself requires much more effort to exercise, compounding the problem. Psychological factors can be or become elements in overweight and obesity. In today's busy world, eating out and fast foods are chosen more often. This generally means eating larger portions of food higher in fat and with less nutritional value for the calories. Modern conveniences of TV and computers are replacing the physical activity of our grandparents.
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A person will be considered morbidly obese if be attains more than double his ideal body weight or more than 50 kg pounds overweight. This is a calculated number kilograms divided by the height in meters squared. A BMI of 25 is normal, A BMI of 40 indicates the presence of morbid obesity, and a BMI between 35 to 40 justifies the surgery with the presence of serious co-morbidities such as diabetes or high blood pressure. Morbidly obese patients are susceptible to a wide range of health disorders, including diabetes, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, kidneys diseases, respiratory disturbances, sleep apnea and degenerative arthritis.
Morbid obesity greatly increases the patient chances of dying from cardiovascular disease. The possibility of early death for morbidly obese men at age of 23—34 years is 12 times that of men in the general population of normal body weight. The consequences of excess body fat can also reduce aspects of social and personal relationships, thus causing emotional stress.
Such individuals face difficulty in finding employment. They face trouble and expense of obtaining special clothing. Dieting, in general, does not work. Even with intense effort only a very small percentage of morbidly obese people are successful in taking off and keeping off excess weight.
Lack of success at dieting effort adds to the feeling of inadequacy and failure. Drugs might help with weight loss as long as they are taken, and therefore for permanent weight loss would need to be taken indefinitely. All the drugs used in reducing body weight have some side effects and the weight lost soon will return when the drugs are stopped. In conclusion, these drugs are considered from the past experience and projected from the foreseeable future, are truly effective in reducing the large amounts of weight necessary for the morbidly obese.
Takrouri MB.
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