19 Reasons for Avoiding Excess Weight Gain

Monday, December 7, 2009

According to a recent study in the U.S., all the adults will be overweight in 40 years. Indeed it is a study for U.S. citizens, but with so many food and merchandise that is peddled junk that stands grandly tempt us wherever we go, is not impossible if we are citizens of Indonesia could experience the same thing?

Excessive fat can become epidemic. Unfortunately for most of us did not look dangerous or considered it dangerous to life. But hopefully the following 19 reasons why we should stay away from excess fat in our body can change your opinion:

1. Fat raises your risk of getting cancer
"Obesity is the main cause of most cancers can be prevented, but most people do not know about it," said Barry Popkin, PhD, an obesity researcher and author of The World Is Fat.

Even the few women know that obesity increased the risk of endometrial cancer. "Women who are overweight has four times more dangerous risk of breast cancer: body fat produces estrogen, hormones that trigger cancer," said Pamela Soliman, MD, MPH, lead author of the study.

2. Can make cancer treatment and recovery becomes more difficult
Generally compared to women who have normal weight, in women who are overweight your doctor will provide treatment doses less than they need.

3. It's difficult for your heart
More and more obese you are likely to have a heart attack earlier in life - 12 years earlier for people who obesity.

4. It makes your sport becomes unpleasant
Boss Lycra. Tight shorts. No wonder for the women who say obesity self-awareness is the biggest obstacle for them to practice. But not only thing that's kept them away from the gym. "They also experience pain and discomfort more than women of normal weight, worried if they were wounded, and merasakah their bodies are too heavy to practice," said Melissa Napolitano, psychological and clinical associate professor of Kinesiology at Temple University Center for Obesity Research and Education, who recently had a survey of 278 women of various weight issues.

5. Fat is dangerous for your brain
Another study found that people who are obese, especially those with a large belly in middle age, 260% more likely to develop dementia (a brain weakness).

6. That's not good for your mood
Does being overweight make depression or depression makes overweight? However, both are related. "Obesity can contribute depression by limiting physical activity and the stigma associated with being overweight," said Gregory Simon, MD, MPH, a psychiatrist from the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle.

7. Fat requires a special point on the joints in the body
"Being overweight seems to give stress on the joints, but factors other metabolic factors associated with body fat and inflammation may trigger involve danger to the joints as well," says Suzanne Leveille, PhD, RN.

8. That put pressure on your bladder
That obese women were two times more likely to experience damage to the pelvis than any other normal woman.

9. That's not good for the organs of your body other
Researchers in Sweden in 2006 reported briefly that the overweight increased the risk threefold chronic renal failure, kidney function gradually weakened and difficult restored.

10. Can provide resistance in the bedroom
People who are overweight there is a possibility he reported problems with sex, such as low sexual desire, sexual performance is difficult with, and lack of taste to enjoy, according to a research result.

11. That makes some medical tests become more difficult
If the United States alone, only 10% of hospitals with emergency departments to have a CT scan machine that can accommodate people who are overweight bada, and even fewer MRI machines are capable of.

12. It can affect your medical care
Some doctors associate obesity with unpleasant characters, such as hostility, dishonesty, and lack of hygiene, indicated by a study.

13. It can disturb your fertility
Too much fat in the body is likely to produce more estrogen, which would suppress ovulation.

14. Make pregnancy more risky
Women with excess body weight is more likely to get diabetes during pregnancy, preeclampsia, and parts of Caesar - all of which increase the risk for both mother and baby.

15. It may even affect your baby's health

16. That makes asthma more difficult to resist

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"Obesity is a risk factor is most significant for respiration during sleep," said Popkin. Excess fat in the body in the chest and the neck can block the air supply and even lung function.

18. That makes you more attractive to be employed
Job applicants who have excess weight is classified more negative and less desirable than others who also have the same qualifications, according to a report in 2008 Rudd Center.

19. It can affect your financial
People who are overweight has generally produce less than people who have normal weight who held the same job, but when they were hit by the disease with a greater risk they have to pay more for health care.