2. All of us love to have a well-built body, or at least
not to be obese, and we have the right to think
like that, because obesity is not just a cosmetic
concern, it's also a risk for some health problems,
such as heart disease, diabetes and the high
blood pressure and others.
Obesity
3. You can prevent your health problems easily, and
you can lose weight through change to the life
and dietary style, increase in physical activity and
other ways.
4. What is Obesity?
Obesity is that, you have a high amount of fat in
your body, and from that definition you can
notice that, obesity is not about more weight,
it's about more fat . To understand this you may
weight more because you are tall. And this is
normal.
5. Now you want to know if you are obese or
not, and this is easy, all you want is to
measure your weight in Kilograms (kg)
and your height in meters (m), and then
use this formula
Or you can use this one too
6. This formula will give you your body mass index
(BMI). the obesity is diagnosed when the (BMI) is
30 or more. now look to this table below to
know more about the (BMI).
BMI Result
Less than
18.5
Underweight
18.8-24.9 Normal
30-40 Obese
More than 40 Very obese
7. Now with the (BMI) you
can diagnose yourself as
an obese or not, but still
there is one problem.
Some people like the
muscular athletes find
their (BMI) higher than
normal, when they most
likely have a normal
amount of fat in their
bodies, and the answer is
that, they weight more
not because of fat, but
because of muscles.
8. What are the causes of obesity ?
Our daily bodies activities need energy come
from food we eat, and more exercise and
activities burn more calories that we get from
food. And not just the activities need to burn
calories, also many metabolic reactions in the
body need the energy from food, such as to warm
up in cold weather and to sweat in the hot days.
But when our food calories amounts exceed the
body need, they will be stored in the body as fat.
9. •Inactivity:
Without activity you don’t
burn as much calories. and
you need to have more
exercise to burn the
excessive calories.
So the causes of obesity is a combination of states and risk
factors that work together to store more fat in our bodies,
and these factors include:
10. •Diets: Some bad eating habits
like high calories diets epically in
the night, or skipping a healthy
breakfast, and replace it by junk
fast food, all of that increase the
body fat .
•Pregnancy: Some women after
the baby is born have an
increasing in their weight, and if
they don’t lose that weight, with
many pregnancies after that,
they may become obese.
11. •Lack Of Sleep: This cause
disturbances in the body hormones, and
increase the appetite. you also may crave
to height calories food.
•Drugs: Some medications lead the
body to gain more weight, these drugs
include, diabetes medications, steroids
and betablockers, anti-seizure
medications, antipsychotic medications
and antidepressants drugs.
12. •Medical conditions: Some diseases and syndromes lead the
body to store more fat and gain weight like Cushing syndrome.
some disease low the metabolic rate in the body and low the
amount of burned calories every day such as the
hypothyroidism. And some diseases lead the patient to lower his
activity, such as arthritis.
•Genetics: Genes affect the amount of body fat we store and
where we store it.
•Family lifestyle: Not because of the genes we find the obesity
runs in the families, it also because of their life style and the food
they eat. We can notice that some countries such as USA, have
more obese people than others countries like Japan and this is
because the culture and the life style.
13. •Age: Obesity could occur at any age, but when we age we
lose more amount of muscles built. more amount of muscles
give higher rate of metabolism and calories burning. When we
lose them we reduce the calories burning and tend to fill the
body with fat.
14. What are the complications of obesity?
Now is obesity dangerous, the answer is yes, and if you are
obese you are at risk to have one or more of a great number
of obesity health problems. Including:
•Type 2 diabetes.
•High blood pressure.
•Stroke.
•Heart disease.
•Gallbladder disease.
•Osteoarthritis.
•Poor wound healing.
•Sleep Apnea (dangerous sleep disorder in which breathing
repeatedly stops and starts).
•High cholesterol
•Metabolic syndrome.
•Cancer.
•Depression.
15. And many other conditions, moreover the quality
of life may be lower, and may be you can't do
everything you want and like as easily as you
would like, you can't join some family activities
or you may feel some shame or depressed.
And this is a list of some weight-related states:
Depression.
Social isolation.
Physical disability.
Discomfort.
16. the healthy weight is the main goal for obesity treatment.
and you can reach that by making a good treatment plan
with your doctor and may one of an nutritionist, dietitian,
obesity specialist and nurse.
This plan include:
Dietary changes.
Exercise and activity.
Behavior change.
Prescription medication.
Weight-loss surgery.
Treatment
17.
18. The prevention is always better than the treatment,
and if you feel currently overweight or your body
mass index exceed 30, you need to start your
prevention program.
More exercise: 150 to 250 minutes of moderate
intensity activity every week is helpful to keep you
away from obesity, and these activities such as fast
walking and swimming.
19. Eat healthy: Low calorie and fibers
rich food such as fruits, vegetables are
good food to have every day, but
saturated fats and sweets and alcohol
are extremely bad , they increase your
body weight, and threaten your health.
Monitor your weight:
Monitoring your weigh and
calculating your body mass index
will be very helpful to know how
your prevention plan work.
