The Top Dangers of Obesity
An obese person faces more health risks than a person of average size. Being overweight comes with annoying enough issues like difficulty finding clothes that fit and sometimes difficulty fitting into seats in places like airplanes and theaters. But more importantly, an obese person also is at much higher risk of life-threatening diseases like heart attack and stroke.
An obese person is generally someone more than 40 to 75 pounds overweight. A person is considered morbidly obese if they weigh 100 pounds or more than what they should. Both conditions come with higher health risks.
Obese people haul much more weight than the human body should carry, putting extra pressure on joints, bones and muscles. Being 50 pounds overweight is like carrying a 50-pound sack the entire day. That’s a lot of burden for any human frame.
Because bones are strong and rugged, the extra weight takes its toll on the weakest part of your frame: the joints. Joints like hips, ankles and knees are at particular risk, because the weight of the entire upper body falls upon them.
Joints are actually the body’s weakest spots since separate bone pieces come together with them. Obese people commonly have trouble with their knees as this very complex joint faces wear and tear with every single step we take.
When someone is obese, theres much more pressure on the knees than normal. So each step puts twice, triple, sometimes four times the normal pressure on those joints. This causes the joints to wear out prematurely and is the reason heavy people often develop pain and abnormal knee conditions.
While hips joints and ankles are also at risk, its the knees that generally carry the brunt of the weight and absorb pressure, so this is where the injuries often appear first.
Aside from the extra weight on the frame and joints, all that extra weight puts pressure on the bodys systems too. First of all, large amounts of body fat dont just show up on the outside. Fat tissue can form internally around organs.
Internal organs are also affected by obesity. Big masses of body fat can actually crowd internal organs and put undue pressure against them. This has effects on how our organs will run and can therefore affect body functions.
All the extra poundage makes it harder for organs to operate and makes the body work harder. This is why obesity often leads to high blood pressure and a strained heart. Heart disease, heart attacks and strokes could develop.
Obesity also reflects a poor diet that is high on calories from unhealthy foods. Consuming too much sugar and processed foods can lead to diabetes. And the diabetes can lead to damaging blood vessels, nerves and eyes.
Poor circulation due to diabetes can even lead to losing one’s eyesight or losing an arm or a leg! But don’t worry, even the already obese can avoid or overturn these negative health effects.
There is hope for the obese. But you must get started right away with a weight loss plan involving both diet and exercise.
If you are obese there is hope. But you need to get cracking on eating right ant getting started on an exercise program. A lot of people have done this successfully. So can you!
