Obesity

        Obesity is a serious, chronic disease that can have a lot of negative effects on many systems in our body. People who are overweight have a greater risk of having diabetes, heart disease or cancers. Obesity is difficult to treat because most of the people lose weight within years. Even though some of the people try to treat themselves through their daily diet, but it is a lifelong ‘project’ to achieve their results. The main causes of obesity are due to overeating, genetics and unhealthy lifestyle/ besides that, the effects of obesity are health problem and inconvenient lifestyle.

        All we know that one of the main cause of obesity is overeating. Overeating leads to weight gain. Overeating of a diet that is high in fat and carbohydrates are the reasons that cause obesity. These foods are high in fat or sugar content. They have high energy density that have a lot of calories value in a small amount of food. When people often consume these kind of food, people intake these food during in an inappropriate time with large amount, they will get obese easily. The fats and carbohydrates could not be digested in a certain time, the nutrients from the food could not be absorbed by our body.

        Besides that, genetics problem is also one of the main causes of having obesity. People will more likely to develop obesity if their parents are obese. Genetics will affect the hormone regulation in our body. The hormone released is used for metabolism of our body. If the body cannot produce enough hormone that regulate the brain to give signal to control eating, the obesity occurs. The hormone released and genetics problem stand an important role in keeping a healthy body. So they will cause obesity if they are not controlled.

        On the other hand, the effect of obesity is health problems. The additional fat tissues that accumulate in our body will increase the workload of our internal organ. For example, the heart’s workload increases because it must pump more blood through the blood vessels. The high content of fats will increase the pressure on the artery wall and blood vessels, this will cause high blood pressure. Obesity also causes resistance to insulin that regulates the blood sugar. When the obesity causes insulin resistance, it has a greater risk on diabetes.

        Moreover, obesity brings inconvenient lifestyle on a person who suffers from obesity. People who are overweight or obese frequently will suffer disadvantages such as face difficulties in movement. They are often being blamed for their condition or easily being bullied. They also may be lazy or weak-willed result on them. It was just because of their body size or look, they may be repelled by others and feel depressed. People who suffer from obesity have low confident when they come against their problem faced. They will find it difficult to express their feelings to others.

        In a nutshell, obesity has brought a lot negative effects in our life. To sum up, obese people should be concern with their health condition and lead a healthier lifestyle to avoid obesity. To lower down the risk of obesity, a balanced diet should be taken and regular exercise also should be done so that we can strengthen our body to face more challenges in our life.