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Obesity
A REAL PROBLEM
The Obesity and overweigh numbers are increasing every year. This is a problem affecting young people and is no longer considered an aesthetic problem. It has become a chronic disease with severe consequences to general health..
2000 years ago, Hippocrates concluded that obesity was shortening life expectancy.
There are several causes to this increase; hereditary, when the metabolism absorbs more nutrients than the normal, reason why some people get fatter than others although eating the same quantity of food; reasons resulting from the sedentary occidental life style (heavy works performed by machines, driving to work, remote controls, Internet, etc.), with children replacing physical exercise for computer games.
Due to lack of time or comfort, eating habits changed, and out typical Mediterranean diet was transformed into fry food, cakes, fast-food and all sort of precooked polyunsaturated fat-rich food, the worst for our health.
Stress, the hand-in-hand companion of our civilisation, is the main cause for anxiety, depression and other nervous system pathologies, slowing the metabolism and compelling people to find food compensation.
Obesity, directly or not, will be soon the main cause of dead in the occidental world reason why we must stay alert and find a physician help if needed.
Medical treatment is always possible. We must be motivated to change our life style, to exercise, split meals and reduce calories intake, adapting those aspects to our needs.
Apparently, this is very simple to accomplish, however, it is not. Usually those mentioned pathologies do not allow us to accomplish those targets reason why the physician will prescribe, as long as it takes, all necessary medication in a safe, efficient and customised way.
In some cases of morbid obesity, it is possible that a surgical procedure will be needed (gastric band, stomach balloon, intestinal bypass).
It is important to know that all obesity problems can now be solved when patients are ready to do so. |
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