An Obese Person Has Health Risks
An obese person faces more health risks
than a person of average weight. Being that overweight can
cause issues like difficulty finding clothes that fit and even
sometimes difficulty fitting into seats in places like
airplanes and theaters. An obese person also is at much higher
risk of things like heart attack and stroke.
Who is Obese Person?
An obese person is generally someone who is more than 40 to
75 pounds overweight. A person is considered morbidly obese if
they weight 100 pounds or more what they should. Both of these
conditions carry elevated health risks.
Preambles Obesity can casuals!
When you’re obese, your body is carrying more weight than it
was designed to carry. This puts extra pressure on bones,
muscles and joints. If you think about how much harder it is to
carry a sack full of 50 pounds than it is to carry one with 5
pounds, it’s easier to see the burden put on your frame.
Because bones are strong and rugged, the extra weight takes
its toll on the weakest part of your frame: the joints. Joints
like hips, ankles and knees are at particular risk, because the
weight of the entire upper body falls up on them.
- Problems with Joints: Joints are
naturally our bodies’ weakest spots because they’re the
spots where the bones come together. The knees are at a
particular risk in an obese person. The knee is a very
complex joint that faces wear and tear with every single
step we take.
- Knee becomes damages! When someone is
obese, there’s much more pressure on the knees than normal.
So each step puts twice, triple, sometimes four times the
normal pressure or more on those joints. This causes the
joints to wear out prematurely and is the reason heavy
people often have trouble with their knees.
- Hips and Ankles: While hips joints and
ankles are at this same risk, it’s the knees that generally
carry the brunt of the weight and absorb the pressure, so
this is where the injuries often appear first.
- Extra pressure means back pain: Aside
from the extra weight on the frame and joints, all that
extra weight puts pressure on the body’s systems, too.
First of all, large amounts of body fat don’t just show up
on the outside, but fatty tissue can form internally around
organs.
- Improper functioning of Internal
organs: And large amounts of body fat can actually
crowd internal organs and put pressure against them. This
pressure can cause the organs to start operating
differently, and can interfere with normal bodily
functions.
- Increase in Bloog pressure: Because
the extra weight requires more work of the body to keep
going, often blood pressure is elevated and the heart has
to work harder than normal. This can be a factor in heart
disease, heart attacks and strokes.
- Can cause diabetes: Also, the extra
weight generally means that the person’s diet is poor and
too high in calories. This is a major cause of diabetes,
which can damage blood vessels, eyes and nerves.
- In some cases, people may lose their eyesight or a foot
or leg to diabetes because of poor circulation.
The good news is that once an obese person starts losing
weight, diabetes and other conditions can be reversed.
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