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Obesity – A Medical Condition to be Treated Early

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Obesity is nothing but the “medical condition where the body fat which is in excess is accumulated and may cause some adverse effect on individual’s health”. It can be differentiated as syndromic and non-syndromic obesity. In case of syndromic, the obese condition features the syndromes like “Prader-Willi syndrome”, “Bardet-Biedl syndrome”. Obesity is expressed as “body mass index” and explained as the excess fat distribution along the “waist hip ratio”. BMI i.e., “Body mass index” is related to ‘percentage body fat’. The healthy weight in children of different age varies with their sex as well. Obesity cannot be expressed as an absolute number but can be given as a percentile of a normal group. If the BMI is greater than 95 % it is considered as obesity.

With the increase in obesity there is an increase in the chance of various diseases especially diseases of the heart, diabetes, difficulties in breathing. Obesity is generally caused by accumulation of excess dietary calories, less physical activity. Sometimes obesity is genetically determined, which is caused by genes, endocrine disorders.

Obese people gain more weight even with less intake of food due to slow metabolism. They require more of energy i.e., their energy consumption is more when compared to non obese people as they require more energy to maintain their heavy body mass.

Obesity can be controlled naturally by physical exercise and dieting. There are artificial ways of controlling obesity which is done using drugs which are taken to reduce appetite or reduces fat absorption. There are other ways to reduce obesity like surgery or insertion of intragastric balloon which reduces the stomach volume or the bowel length which leads to earlier satiation and reduces the ability of stomach to absorb nutrients from the food intake.

Stanton DeFreitas

The Magical HCG Diet- A Step Towards A Better Health

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With a lot many people being smitten by the modern lifestyle, there has been a considerable increase in the number of lifestyle related disorders and ailments which have impregnated our systems. Out of all the likes of diabetes, abnormal blood pressure, heart disease and many more, there is the dragon of increasing weight and obesity which refuses to be tamed at all times.

This has been also the reason why a great deal of attention and interest is now being paid as to how keep this deadly disease at bay and to bring about a loss in weight and hence an improvement in the condition.

In this pursuit of this slimming method, hcg diets were invented and have come to be increasingly used today by a lot of people all over the world. Such a hcg diet is basically based upon a magical sort of hormone – hcg discovered for the first time in the bodies of pregnant ladies and was later also proved to be present in males. This hormone has a special property to enhance the metabolic rate of the body by effectively synthesizing the fats accumulated in the fact cells in the body. This is the reason why an effective hcg diet generally works on two constituent strategies. It reduces the overall calorie intake of the body by giving the patient just a calorie intake of 500 calories and this is the reason why no more accumulation of fat takes place in the body.

Apart from this, the second part of the strategy involves giving shots of the hormone hcg to the person .This hormone goes in to the body and improves its overall metabolism to bring about an increased fat burning in the body. This is the reason why a reduction in weight by almost 30 to 50 lbs has been observed in the body of the patient.

Stanton DeFreitas

The Effects of Junk Food on the Human Body

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Are you feeling tired and hungry after long 10 hours of duty in office? A burger seems to be the perfect at that moment to fill the gap. This is not the case with you only because most people lead such a lifestyle and end up in a bigger mess where their health is concerned.

In this era, everything needs to be fast and even our food habits have become fast food based. We are consuming a lot of things that we should not, hence obesity has become a big problem. Children, middle aged people, young people and everyone seems to be suffering from obesity. The density of fast food is quite shocking and if you come to know that the density is nearly 70% higher than typical food then you will surely be scared.

However, we can always cut the harmful things out from our diet. Everything need not be fast enough, and in the case of food, one must enjoy it. Good health and junk food do not go hand in hand. That is why we are going to take a look at some of the negative points of junk foods so that you can understand why one must avoid junk food.

Fast food and the high density can actually confuse your brain about the food you are taking. The appetite controller does not really work properly and that is why all the problems start. You will lose the normal appetite apart from gaining a lot of weight within a real short time. This much intake of calories is really harmful for your heart and overall health and you must understand that before it is too late. If you weigh the same amount of pasta and a burger, then in the case of a burger you are actually consuming double the amount of fat and that is surely alarming.

Junk foods are not nutritious but then nobody can eat the nutritious food all the time. For that you can have fast food and/or junk food once in a week but if you start eating these more regularly then things can take a bitter turn for sure.

It is not that people are eating too much. It is about the density that they are gaining weight for. Low energy density is ideal for human body and these fast and junk foods are doing a lot of harm on the body’s metabolism. In case of normal food you can consume very little and totally negligible amount of calories where the equation is absolutely opposite in case of junk foods. The love for junk food is the main reason in the rising of obesity in today’s society. This is really tough to ignore the attractions of a delicious pizza, french fries or a cheeseburger. However, you need to avoid it to stay fit and healthy.

At the end of the day, your diets needs to be healthy and you must not forget that.

Stanton DeFreitas