Overweight and obesity – Weight Loss Tips

Losing weight in a healthy way does not involve starvation or deprivation. This article will describe some of the reasons of Overweight and obesity and also how to how to lose weight in a healthy way.

Losing weight in a healthy way does not involve starvation or deprivation. That is why it is permanent. If you Lose weight in a healthy way, you are likely to keep it off for good. Having established that your body needs a well balanced diet, with a good supply of carbohydrates, especially high – fiber foods, water vitamins and minerals, and a certain amount of protein and fat, you need to know how to put it into practice. We help you to achieve your goal.

MAIN CAUSES OF OBESITY -

Genetics : Overweight and obesity tend to run in families, suggesting a genetic cause. While you cannot change your genetic make-up, you can certainly change the diet and lifestyle habits, which you most likely share, with your family members.

Environmental Factors: These range from overeating, too much refined/fatty foods, lack of exercise and a sedentary lifestyle to psychological factors such as eating out of boredom, sadness or anger.

Disease conditions: Hormonal imbalances, hypothyroidism, and PCOS etc can be responsible for weight gain.

Medications: Corticosteroids and antidepressants may also result in overweight and obesity.

Though, the above reasons are contributory in weight gain, you may gain due to wrong choices of foods which slow down your metabolism and do not give you adequate energy. The solutions lies in carefully matching the various food with your physiology and including the most suited ones in your diet and restraining / moderating the intake of non-suitable foods. This approach along with the correct life style modifications goes a long way to lose weight, be healthier and to maintain the same as well.

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Obesity and Morbid Obesity – A World Wide Problem

During the past 20 years or so a new life threatening disease has crept upon mankind. It’s a disease of affluence that’s affected wealthy countries in the past but is now being seen throughout the world. The disease is obesity, a condition caused by people being grossly overweight.

Obesity and especially morbid obesity, are regarded by the health profession throughout the world as being a killer disease.

It can be said that obesity affects those people who fail to look after their general health. As such it’s a disease that’s totally avoidable – with care and diligence the worst aspects of the condition can be prevented.

However those sufferers who experience the severe medical problems associated with the condition can expect to live 9 years LESS than a person free of the condition.

Once thought to be a problem confined to the affluent western countries, it is now being seen in countries experiencing a rapid improvement in their living standards. However the countries with the biggest increase in numbers are still the west countries, with large increases being seen in children.

Obesity: Definition and Causes
What is obesity, what causes it, and why is the most extreme form of obesity, morbid obesity, particularly life threatening?

Obesity is a term used for those people who are grossly overweight as defined by the Body Mass Index scale, a scale used by the medical profession to determine the weight status of an individual. It means a person who is well in excess of an ideal weight for a person of the same age and height; a condition that has the likelihood of progressing to morbid obesity – an extreme form of obesity – and thus cause a number of life threatening conditions.

It’s now accepted by nutritionists that the principal causes of overweight and obesity are a poor diet with an absence of vital foods, and a life without regular exercises.

Morbid obesity is a more pronounced form of obesity characterized by an over-abundance of body fat. It’s responsible for a multitude of health problems many of which can eventually result in death. Some of these conditions are type 2 diabetes, heart ailments, some forms of cancer, sleep apnea, and various mental problems such as depression.

Now a Worldwide Medical Problem
The number of people world -wide suffering from the effects of obesity has exploded in the last 20 years with the result that the World Health Organization is now monitoring the situation and looking at how countries are able to cope with ever-increasing health budgets.

Once thought to be a self-inflicted social problem rather than a health problem, obesity and its more troublesome condition is now regarded as a major disease by governments and the medical community. There are more than 300 million people affected throughout the world with more than a billion people said to be over weight. This problem can justly be called an obesity epidemic.

Many Western countries are experiencing ever growing numbers of sufferers, some more so than others. The US leads the way with about 30% of the adult population said to be obese, with the incidence particularly high amongst Afro-Americans and those of Spanish decent. The obesity rate for children is also the worst in the world, with every indication it’ll get worse before there’s any improvement.

Other countries such as the UK, Australia, Canada and many European countries have rates that are cause for serious concern with the number of over weight children in these countries mirroring the increase in the US.

At the end of 2006 the World Health Organization in conjunction with European countries drew up plans to halt the spread of the disease. Certain objectives were set that hopefully will lead to a reduction in the rate of increase in the number of obese people, and eventually a decline.

The medical research companies are playing their part too in helping to combat this problem. One of the most recent discoveries was that of a natural plant product that helps to dispel from the human body fat from a recently eaten meal.

This product has been clinically tested and found that 28% of the fat consumed is dispelled by natural means, rather than be stored in the body as fat. This product also acts as an appetite suppressant, thus reinforcing its role as an effective weight loss product.

The author has a personal interest in a wide range of health and social issues and has contributed to web sites dealing with topics such as how to lose weight and weight loss tips. He’s also written about Hoodia diet pills and the problems associated with this product.

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Childhood Obesity Statistics and Facts

According to research, Childhood Obesity results in high percentage of Obesity at adult stage as much as 70 percent. What is worse is that this rate is on increase and almost doubled in the last three decades. Let us have a look at more intriguing Statistics and Facts about childhood Obesity

Obesity is a major problem, not only in America, but also in most countries, both developed and developing. This is a major concern for the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) in America and the WHO (World Health Organization) because childhood obesity statistics show that obese children and especially those in the teenage years have a 70% chance of being obese as adults. What is worse is that percentage increases to 80% if either one or both of the parents are obese as well.

This is a major concern because obesity is the cause of many major health concerns later in life. This does not only affect the person themselves, but those who love them and society in general as this causes health insurance to rise and eventually decreases the number of people who are fit to work, thus putting a strain on the economy. This article will present the results of research on obesity, and childhood obesity facts and obesity statistics.

Childhood Obesity Statistics
In 2004, there was a research report written about a study that lasted from 1999 to 2002 entitled "Prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents: United States" conducted by the CDC. According to that report "16 % children (over 9 million) 6-19 year olds are overweight or obese" this is three times what it was in 1980. In addition, this report brings out the fact that also during this same time period an additional 15% were "at risk of becoming overweight".

Not only has this number tripled, but in the past three decades (according to this same study) obesity has "more than doubled" in both children and adolescents from ages 2-5 and also ages 12-19 while more than tripling in children between the ages of 6-11.

Childhood obesity facts
Economic Costs – In the twenty years from 1979-1991 the hospital costs for children and youth have risen from 35 million in 1979-1981 to 127 million from 1997-1991 (Preventing childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance, 2005, Institute of Medicine).

Health Costs – Our children are paying dearly and at their young age are not realizing this. Type 2 Diabetes has risen from 4% new cases seen in the pre-1990′s to between 8-45% during the 1990′s. In addition the incidence of a single risk factor for heart disease has also risen to nearly 60% of children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old who are obese. Not only that, but those with at least 2 risk factors has also risen to 25%. Some of these risk factors are those that generally we associate with the elderly, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high triglycerides. These children are having diseases at 5 and 10 years old that in the past took decades to get.

However, this problem is not only an "American" problem where we need to look shamefacedly at the other nations of the world when this subject is brought up. Other nation’s rates of obesity have also risen and I think it safe to assume that some of those statistics also represent obesity in children.

Some of the other nations that have a higher rate of obesity and should also be staring at their stomach’s instead of their toes are Samoa has the highest worldwide with a 74% of obesity compared to that of America’s 34% and China’s 2%. These particular statistics represent the high, mid-range and the low rate of obesity per nation. These statistics come from International Obesity Task Force, WHO figures 2002.

Why are these children suffering as if they have been eating and assaulting their bodies for decades when in reality they have been alive for only 5 or 10 years? The first, of two main causes, is the fast food that is prevalent, not only in America, but in most other nation. Having lived in South Korea for most of the 90′s myself I know that Seoul and most other cities there not only have American fast food restaurants, such as Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and other down home American favorites, but also have their own fast food equivalents as well.

Not only is it what we have been feeding our kids and what they have demanded at times, but it is also the lack of exercise, not only in the schools, but also after school at home. You know the scenario, you’re sitting with your friend when her kids come home and they begin to fight over it. They are yelling and screaming, demanding that it is their turn to use whatever mechanical device may have just rolled off the shelves at the nearest Wal-mart or other store. These devices range from DVD players, to video games, to the latest video or other fantastic toy that has become number one on the ratings list.

We ourselves are at fault for what is happening to our children. Some of them are too young to even know better, so it is up to us to watch what our children are eating and how much exercise they are getting.

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