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Relationships Among Obesity, Diabetes, and Periodontal Disease

   

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Figure 3: Relationships among obesity, diabetes, and periodontal disease (Source: Shimazaki andSaito, 2000)Women who have obesity, consume high quantity of food and this causes in creation ofcarbohydrates. During digestion, carbohydrates break down into sugar and when thelevel of sugar is high, then it causes diabetes. Further, Periodontitis is a type of Gumdisease that is also caused due to obesity. These happen when there are changes inglucose level.Symptoms of obesity and symptoms of diabetes caused due to obesitySymptoms of obesity includes breathing disorders, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.Symptoms of diabetes caused due to obesity are as follows:Urinary infectionOral yeast and vaginal infectionsFemale sexual dysfunctionFemale sexual dysfunction: When high blood glucose damages nerve fibres, thendiabetic neuropathy occurs. This reduces the sensual feeling in different parts ofwomen body like legs, hands and feet. Figure 2: Health risks of Obesity (Source:10 Health Risks of Being Overweight or Obese, 2016)IntroductionObesity can be termed as “excessive body fat”, it is a type of disorder that involves excessivebody fat due to which is increases health related problems. There are many reasons of obesity,some of them include overeating, medications, genetics, psychological factors, etc.Due to overeating the rate of sugar in the body increases and this causes diabetes (Matias,Dewey and Gunderson, 2014). It increases risk of various other diseases such as: “coronary artery disease, diabetes, high riskof low back pain, negative impact on fertility and contraception, etc.As compared to men, obesity among women is higher. Obesity rate among females is increasing on continuous basis. Comparision of Obesity among men & women at Global levelFigure 1: Rate of Obesity(Source: Global obesity rates continue to climb, 2016)From the above, figure, it can be stated that the rate of obesity in the year 1975 was high amongwomen (Global obesity rates continue to climb, 2016). This rate increased highly with time and thechanges that has taken place among male obesity is low when compared with women.Impact of diabetes due to obesity in womenImpact on health and society due to obesity includes lower quality of life, discrimination,depression, etc.Some of the impacts of diabetes due to obesity on health and society are as follows:DepressionAngerAnxietyDepression: The condition of overweight and diabetes causes low blood sugar levels due which itcauses hunger and eating too much (Miettinen, Rönö and Gylling, 2014). This slowly makes thecondition more worse and increase high health related issues.Measure to control obesityProper dietStable blood sugar levelEncouraging physical activityProper diet: Every women must develop plan to maintain their health and calories by followinghealthy eating (Bray and Popkin, 2014). Major focus should be made on fruits, veggies which arerich in calcium and protein, this can reduce every uncertainty and issues that result in obesityproblems that also becomes the reason for diabetes. This an effective way to reduce diabetes whenwomen take proper and planned diet.Causes of diabetes to women with obesityIndividuals who have obesity have high pressure on making use of insulin inorder to control their blood sugar levels. Due to this reason, women are more likely todevelop diabetes (Obesity and childhood obesity, 2015). Further, diabetes is a type ofchronic condition that is associated with fluctuations that take place in levels of sugarin blood. The level of insulin increases when intake of food is high.ReferencesBray, George. A., & Popkin, Barry. M. (2014). Dietary sugar and body weight: Have we reached a crisis in the epidemic of obesity and diabetes?.Diabetes care.37(4). 950-956.Shimazaki, Yoshihiro & Saito, Toshiyuki (2000). Metabolic disorders related to obesity and periodontal disease. Periodontology. 43. pp. 254-266Global obesity rates continue to climb. (2016). [Online]. Available through: < https://www.sciencenews.org/article/global-obesity-rates-continue-climb>. [Accessed on 20th September 2017].Matias, Susana. L., Dewey, Kathryn. G., & Gunderson, Erica. P. (2014). Maternal prepregnancy obesity and insulin treatment during pregnancy are independently associated with delayed lactogenesis in women with recent gestational diabetes mellitus.The American journal of clinical nutrition.99(1). 115-121.Miettinen, Helena. E. and et.al., (2014). Elevated serum squalene and cholesterol synthesis markers in pregnant obese women with gestational diabetes mellitus.Journal of lipid research.55(12). 2644-2654.Obesity and childhood obesity. (2015). [Online]. Available through: http://www.nutrichoice4u.com/increasing-trends-in-obesity-and-childhood-obesity-starting-to-kill-the-young-generation/>. [Accessed on 20th September 2017].10 Health Risks of Being Overweight or Obese. 2016. [Online]. Available through: http://www.top10homeremedies.com/news-facts/10-health-risks-overweight-obese.html>. [Accessed on 20th September 2017].Renault, K. M., Nørgaard, K., & Secher, N. J. (2014). The Treatment of Obese Pregnant Women (TOP) study: a randomized controlled trial of the effect of physical activity intervention assessed by pedometer with or without dietary intervention in obese pregnant women.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology.210(2). 134-e1.Obesity and Diabetes

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