Overweight and obesity are defined by the World Health Organisation as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health.
But the actual question is WHY ARE WE OVERWEIGHT?
If we put it simply, your weight depends upon the number of calories you consume, how many of those calories you store and how many you burn up. But each of these factors are influenced by a combination of genes and environment. Both of these factors can affect your physiology as well as your behaviour.
Here are a few major reasons which play a big role in causing obesity:
- Lack of education regarding the food we consume leading to yo-yo diets.
- Cutting out nutrient dense foods.
- Increasing processed food consumption.
- No clear cut goal.
RISKS OF BEING OVERWEIGHT
We often underestimate the problems that unhealthy eating would cause to our health in general. Obesity is theMAJOR cause for a large amount of diseases that the world is suffering with today.
A few of them are :
- Type 2 diabetes
- High Blood pressure
- Large no. of cardiovascular diseases.
- Pregnancy problems
- Sleep apnoea
- Fatty liver disease.
- Kidney diseases
- Osteoarthritis
- CANCER : having a BMI above average results in the risk of acquiring many types of cancers.