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1. OBESITY AND OVERWEIGHT: FIVE DISEASES AND HEALTH
CONDITIONS
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2. A health care professional can readily tell if you are obese, overweight, or healthy
by simply measuring your Body Mass Index, or BMI, in short. It effectively
determines your weight in proportion to your height and the further it goes
outside the scope of the standard range, the greater your odds are of developing a
host of critical health issues from obesity and being overweight.
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3. Accomplishing and sustaining a healthy weight is something that cannot be achieved
overnight and might turn out to be a challenging task for obese and overweight
individuals in the long-term.
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4. Ensuring a healthy weight through appropriate means or at least preventing
yourself from gaining more weight can help overweight people reduce the
likelihood of developing specific medical conditions.
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5. Obesity is on the verge of becoming a national epidemic in the USA and is
associated with several chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, high blood
pressure, hyperlipidemia, cancer, and cardiovascular disease.
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6. This grave medical condition is responsible for an astounding 18% mortality rate
in the age group of 40 to 85 among American population, as observed by a
health research study, questioning the deeply-rooted, prevailing notion of the
medical and scientific community that a mere 5 in every 100 deaths in the
country are related to obesity.
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7. This new finding essentially suggests that it is as fatal as cigarette smoking, when
it comes to the discussion of public health hazards, as the particular way of
nicotine consumption can be linked to 20 in every 100 deaths in the USA and is
acknowledged as the major preventable cause of mortality in the country.
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8. Obesity and overweight are often associated with emotional health issues like
depression. People who are either obese or overweight may also experience
weight bias as well as face the stigma of the medical care services providers and
others, which, in turn, can result in guilt, feeling of rejection, or shame, further
worsening the prevailing problems concerning one's mental well-being.
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9. The major diseases and health complications caused by obesity and overweight are
illustrated below in brief.
(1)TYPE 2 DIABETES
When the blood glucose concentration becomes abnormally high on a permanent
basis, the particular medical condition is termed as type 2 diabetes.About 4 in every
5 individuals with the said form of diabetes are known to be either obese or
overweight.
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10. Add High blood sugar levels can manifest a large number of medical conditions,
such as stroke, heart conditions, eye issues, neuropathic damage, eye problems,
and other health issues.Allowing yourself to engage in periodic physical
activities and reducing 5% to 7% of your weight may prevent or postpone type
2 diabetes onset in the event you belong to the risk group for the particular
disease.
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11. (2) HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
When the blood passes through the blood vessels in your body with
significantly more force, the particular medical condition is known as
hypertension, or more commonly, high blood pressure. It can cause an
alarmingly great level of damage to your blood vessels, strain your heart, and
help increase the odds of stroke, kidney disease, heart attack, and even death.
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12. (3) HEART DISEASE
The umbrella term heart disease is routinely used to indicate a wide and
diverse gamut of medical conditions that can affect the overall well-being of the
organ. If you are diagnosed with heart disease, you are at a greater risk of having
heart failure, sudden cardiac death, angina, heart attack, or a heart rhythm that is
not considered normal.
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13. Elevated fat levels in your bloodstream, high blood sugar concentrations, and high
blood pressure may increase the odds of heart disease. Blood lipids or blood fats
necessarily refer to triglycerides, High-Density Lipoprotein or HDL cholesterol,
and Low-Density lipoprotein or LDL cholesterol. Reducing 5% to 10% of your
body mass is likely to help you mitigate the risks of developing heart disease and
can help improve your blood flow, cholesterol levels, and blood pressure.
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14. (4) STROKE
If there is a blockage or an incidence of blood vessel rupture in your neck or brain, it
causes the blood supply in your brain to restrain all of a sudden, and the particular
medical condition is known as stroke.A stroke can cause reversible or irreversible
damage to your brain, resulting in partial or complete paralysis and thus, making you
incapable of speaking or initiating body movements.To suffice, hypertension is
recognized as being the vital cause of strokes.
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15. (5) SLEEP APNEA
Sleep apnea is a medical condition when an individual does not breathe frequently and
is pretty much common in a large number of people around the globe. One may also
cease breathing altogether for small intervals. If the said sleeping disorder continues to
remain undiagnosed and untreated, it may increase the odds of other critical health
issues, such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
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Thanks for reading,
Jeff Jeffries
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