What is obesity, and when does it become a problem?
Obesity occurs when you have gained weight beyond what is considered healthy, as measured by your BMI.
Obesity becomes a problem when:
- It affects your breathing pattern.
- Limits your movements, such as walking, jumping, running, bending, etc., due to continuous pain in the body, muscles, and joints.
- Limits your ability to do certain tasks, as small efforts lead to fatigue and tiredness.
- Starts to affect your mental health, lowering your self-esteem.
- When metabolic diseases start to creep in, affecting your internal body balance.
What are the main reasons that lead to Obesity?
Nothing happens without a reason.
- Hereditary: Obesity sometimes runs in families. Slow metabolism, gland imbalances, and certain habits everyone in the family has adopted can lead to obesity.
- Mental reasons: Sometimes, to feel better, we eat more food, especially sweet and fatty food. Fear, stress, the suppression of feelings, and frustration can disturb us mentally. Sometimes we just eat to entertain ourselves. But when food becomes a frequent way to relieve stress and entertain us, it becomes a reason for obesity. Eating is for energy, not to entertain ourselves or to make us feel good.
- Lack of Physical activity: Use of energy from the body is important to continue the energy cycle. When we do some physical activity, all our body systems get activated. One should take up some or the other physical activity as a part of their regular routine. Whatever we eat gets stored as fat. Physical exercise will help the body avoid accumulating fat. Otherwise, we are trapped in a vicious loop: fat storage slows metabolism, which in turn leads to eating more for energy.
- Drug addiction and substance abuse: This increases the tamasic gun of our body. All the systems of our body are affected because of this. It’s difficult to follow discipline. All this negatively affects our bodies and increases mental distress.
It is important to solve this problem. But medicines and surgery are not the right approach as they do not address the root causes discussed above. Obesity can be tackled successfully with the right lifestyle changes, discipline of mind and body, and incorporating physical activity into our daily routines.
Obesity, if ignored for a long time, is an open invitation to metabolic diseases like Type 2 Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Hypothyroidism, Fatty Liver Disease, Cholesterol Imbalances, and many more. One disease attracts another.
But the good news is that Obesity can be cured. And it should be cured. In the upcoming pages you will find various ways that help fight obesity and will significantly improve the quality of your life.