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Obesity is excess weight as a result of the accumulation of excess body fat.

Everyone needs some body fat to store energy as heat insulation, shock absorber and other functions. The average woman has more body fat more than men. Comparison between the normal body fat weight is approximately 25-30% in women and 18-23% in men. Women with more body fat than 30% and men with more body fat than 25% are considered obese.

Someone who has a weight 20% higher than the midpoint of the range of normal weight is considered obese.

Obesity is classified into 3 groups: mild obesity: overweight 20-40%
Obesity is: being overweight 41-100%
Obesity weight: excess weight> 100%.

Severe obesity was found as much as 5% of the people who are fat.

Attention not only to the amount of fat filled, but also to the location of body fat accumulation. The pattern of body fat distribution in men and women tend to differ. Women tend to accumulate fat in the hips and buttocks, so that gives pear. While the men usually accumulate fat around the abdomen, thus providing a picture like apples. But it is not an absolute; sometimes on some men looked like a pear and some women look like apples, especially after menopause.

Someone who accumulated a lot of fat in the abdomen may be more susceptible to various health problems associated with obesity. They have a higher risk. Pear picture better than the picture of an apple.

To distinguish between these two images, has found a way to determine whether a person is shaped like an apple or pear, which is by calculating the ratio of waist to hip. The waist is measured at the narrowest point, while the hip was measured at the widest point; and waist size divided by hip size. A woman with a waist size of 87.5 cm and 115 cm hip size, has a waist-hip ratio of 0.76. Women with a ratio of waist: hip more than 0.8 or men with a ratio of waist: hip more than 1, say an apple-shaped.

CAUSE
Scientifically, obesity is due to consuming more calories than needed by the body. Cause of the imbalance between calorie intake and burning is still not clear.

Occurrence of obesity involves several factors:

1. Genetic factors.
Obesity tends lowered, so alleged to have genetic causes. But the family members not only share genes, but also food and lifestyle habits, which can promote obesity. Often difficult to separate the lifestyle factors with genetic factors. Recent research shows that the average genetic factors have an impact for 33% of one’s body weight.

2. Environmental factors.
Gene is an important factor in many cases of obesity, but the environment also plays a significant role. These environments include behavioral / lifestyle patterns (eg what to eat and how many times a person to eat and how their activities). A person certainly can not change the genetic pattern, but he can change eating and activity patterns.

3. Psychological factors.
What’s in a person’s mind can affect eating habits. Many people reacted to his emotions by eating. One form of emotional disturbance is a negative self-perception. This interference is a serious problem in many young women who suffer from obesity, and can cause excessive awareness of it fat and discomfort in social interaction.

There are two abnormal eating patterns that could be the cause of obesity is eating in a number of very many (binge) and eat at night (syndrome eating at night). Both diets are usually triggered by stress and disappointment. Binge similar to bulimia nervosa, in which a person eat in a number of very large, the difference in this case did not binge followed by spitting back what has been eaten. As a result of calories you consume so much. In the syndrome eating at night, is the reduced appetite in the morning and followed by excessive eating, agitation and insomnia at night.

4. Health factors.

Some diseases can cause obesity, including:

Hypothyroidism
Cushing’s syndrome
Prader-Willi syndrome
Several neurological disorders that can cause someone a lot of eating.

5. Drugs.

Certain medications (eg steroids and some anti-depressants) can cause weight gain.

6. Growth factor.

Adding the size or number of fat cells (or both) will increase the amount of fat stored in the body. People with obesity, particularly those of obesity in childhood, can have fat cells 5 times more than people whose weight is normal. The number of fat cells can not be reduced, because the weight loss can only be done by reducing the amount of fat in each cell.

7. Physical activity.

Lack of physical activity is probably one of the main causes of the increasing incidence of obesity in the middle of a prosperous society.
People who do not actively require fewer calories. Someone who tend to consume high-fat diet and physical activity are not balanced, will be obese.

SYMPTOMS
Excessive accumulation of fat below the diaphragm and chest wall in the can pressure the lungs, causing breathing problems and shortness of breath, even if the patient is only a mild activity. Respiratory problems can occur during sleep, causing cessation of breathing for a while (sleep apneu), so that by day patients often feel sleepy.

Obesity can cause a variety of orthopedic problems, including lower back pain and aggravate osteoarthritis (particularly in the hip, knee and ankle).

Common skin disorders.
The obese person has a body surface is relatively narrow compared with their weight, so body heat can not be disposed of efficiently and sweat more. Often found in edema (swelling due to accumulation of fluid) in the legs and ankles.

COMPLICATIONS

Obesity is not only unsightly but the eye is a terrible health dilemma. Obesity is directly harmful to one’s health. Obesity increases the risk of some chronic diseases such as:

Diabetes type 2 (arising in adolescence)
High blood pressure (hypertension)
Stroke
A heart attack (infarct myocardium)
Heart failure
Cancer (certain types of cancer, such as prostate cancer and colon cancer)
Gall bladder stones and bladder stones
Gout and arthritis gout
Osteoarthritis
Sleep apneu (failure to breathe normally while asleep, causing reduced oxygen levels in the blood)