Everbody Needs To Act This World Obesity Day

An abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may affect health can result in obesity. Most of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. 

 

Around 39 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2020. 

For a long time, World Obesity Day has been held in areas across the globe. Among the first of these was European Obesity Day (EOD), first held in May 2010. 

World Obesity Day is now celebrated on 3rd March every year. This year’s theme of World Obesity Day is “Everybody Needs To Act”, where we as a society need to work together to shed light on this widespread, often neglected disease of obesity.

 

Causes Of Obesity

Common specific causes of obesity include:

• Genetics can influence how your body processes food into energy and how fat is put away
• Growing older leads to less muscle mass and a slower metabolic rate, making it easier for weight to gain
• Not resting enough can prompt hormonal changes that cause you to feel hungrier and ache for specific unhealthy food varieties
• Pregnancy, as weight acquired during pregnancy, might be challenging to lose and could ultimately prompt obesity
• Eating a bigger number of calories than you consume in a day by day movement and exercise - on a drawn-out premise - can lead to obesity. Over the long run, these 
• additional calories add up and cause weight gain.

Association With Other Chronic Conditions

Obesity is one of the risk factors of the following diseases, making it difficult to treat them:

• metabolic syndrome
• type 2 diabetes
• high blood pressure
• high triglycerides and low “good” cholesterol
• heart disease
• stroke
• sleep apnea
• gallbladder disease
• sexual health issues
• nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
• osteoarthritis
• mental health conditions

 

Consequences

Obesity causes significant diseases, and other than that it has other consequences as well.

It’s a widespread disease. Obesity rates are steadily rising. Almost 40% of the population beyond 20 years old are viewed as obese. Medical services cost a complete $300 billion.

It is a stigma in society, lots of us still believe that obesity stems from laziness. Potential employers often discriminate against overweight people. Obese children face bullying.

How To Combat Obesity

To take on obesity, there must be profound changes needed to be made, since obesity, to an extent, is preventable.

Starting with making your lifestyle healthy; more low-glycemic index food should be included in your diet, with a habit of working out regularly, cutting down on all the junk food.

Discuss with your doctor about your calories intake and how much it can be reduced. 

There should be a focus on stress management as it is one of the leading causes of obesity because it signals the brain to consume more calories.

Get important diagnostic test that is Body Mass Index(BMI) done and other important Lab tests such as:

Cholesterol levels, Low "good" cholesterol (HDL) and high "bad" cholesterol (LDL) levels, which are commonly associated with obesity

Fasting blood sugar and hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C) to check for signs of prediabetes or diabetes,

Thyroid test, linked with obesity

Liver function tests, to check for fatty liver disease.

Your physician may suggest other tests such as ECG as well.

Our Responsibility

World Obesity Day is celebrated to unify masses globally, to provide opportunity and shed light on the disease and its serious health consequences. Obesity is a chronic disease that has engulfed more than two billion people around the world, increasing the risk of several chronic diseases. It is viewed as the most serious health problem worldwide and is stigmatized in much of the modern world. Through social responsibility, prompt solutions should be found including prevention, treatment and paying attention to a healthy lifestyle.

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