Obesity

Obesity or overweight is an imbalance of food intake compared with expenditure of energy by the body. Obesity can cause many serious diseases, including DM, hypertension and heart. The risk of death caused by diabetes that is a stroke, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, kidney, and gallbladder disorders.

In addition, obesity is also caused by several factors. For example, the wrong diet (used to eating high fat foods), the modern lifestyle of sedentary, stress was rushed to the food, and heredity.

How to overcome obesity could be done by changing the diet or diet and exercise regularly. Previous first need to know the cause of obesity, because it sometimes takes a drug to help adjust the body to the new habit.

Obesity is often associated with the number of fat in the body. Fat is a friend and foe. Fats are needed by the body to store energy as heat insulation, as shock absorber, and others. The average woman has more body fat more than men. Comparison between the normal body fat weight in women is approximately 25-30% and in males around 18-23%.

Although fat is very useful to the body, various diseases may arise due to excess fat. One of them is obesity or being overweight as a result of the accumulation of excess body fat. Women with more body fat than 25% (at the pia 20% or more) than the corresponding ideal weight for height are considered obese.

Types of Obesity

Obesity can be classified into three groups of mild obesity (overweight 20-40%), obesity is (being overweight 41-100%) and severe obesity (excess weight> 100%).

Common causes of obesity are in excess consumption of food than is needed by the body, excess alcohol, and the lifestyle that does not require adequate exercise. Obesity can be prevented by a variety of ways. Among them avoid the consumption of alcohol, avoid stress, depression, frustration, change the behavior of unhealthy eating, avoid foods high consumption of fat and sugar content, and regular exercise.

Sports should be at least 30 minutes a day, three times a week and try to do activities such as walking. This is better done than using the escalator.