Kathleen Obesity: Causes, Signs, and Treatment

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Kathleen Johnson is an old lady as her years dictates. Her major work is in the library
where she returns books back to the shelves. She is described as overweight. In a life time,
weight can be an issue with the way one works in the day to day activities while other factors are
constants. The heavier the work, the lesser the rate of becoming overweight. Kathleen work is a
very simple job, just moving from one corner to another in a room. It explains why she is
overweight. She is also suffering from the type 2 diabetes. The two are signs of obesity. Due to
depression related to her look, father’s load (who has a mental loss) and diabetes, she tries to
drink a lot and smoke to help her relieve the stress.
Kathleen as proven above has obesity. There are causes related to obesity and the
changes that accompany a person when she suffers from obesity. First, what is obesity? It is the
excessive fats in a person’s body that are considered harmful to a person’s life. Obesity is
calculated using the (BMI) which is the body mass index. BMI is determined by taking the total
mass of a person and diving it by the square of his/her height. One can be said to be obese if
he/she is over 30. There are certain major causes of obesity. Two of the major causes include
excessive food consumption and lack of exercise (Flegal et al. 2015). The sighs associated with
an obese person include diabetes, overweight, pain in the back and the joints, depression, and
fatigue (Weyer et al. 2014).
According to the above-named causes and signs, Kathleen can be proven to be obese. Her
BMI is at 40. It proves that her weight is a lot hence have a lot of unconsumed fats in her body.
The causes of obesity are related to Kathleen’s behaviors. One, she tries to take a very good diet

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every day making her have fat in her body but what she forgets is that she should do a good
exercise to consume the excess energy in the body. As explained earlier, her work is simple
hence there is less manpower. It is due to this that she is overweight. There is no proof that she
does any other exercise except when she is at work. There are symptoms and signs related to her
obesity. She suffers from depression.it is said that she takes a lot of drinks (beer, coffee, and
whiskey) to release her stress. Every person especially women love having a well-curved body
which can be admired and look beautiful. With the overweight body, there are no curves, the
body looks more of unexplained shape hence one can suffer from low self-esteem. She will see
herself us not valuable in front of others hence having stress. The other cause of depression is her
diabetes which is also caused by obesity. She has the common type 2 diabetes which does not
make nor use the insulin. Diabetes can really cause major problems in a person. These problems
include heart problems, stroke, and damage to the kidneys and eyes. Some of those diseases can
lead to death if the patient is not well taken care of (Özcan et al. 2014)
The pain that Kathleen has, has a great impact on her life in relationship to obesity. As
described earlier, the pain is due to her father’s mental problem, overweight, and diabetes. It is
pain that makes her smoke and takes excessive drinks. She takes four bottles of beers, glasses of
whiskey and a packet of cigarettes. All these drinks and smoking has side effects on her body.
Excessive drinks can lead to liver problems, poor mental judgments among others while smoking
can lead to lung cancer. If she does not deal with the pain, there can be serious consequences
aside from obesity. Poor judgments due to the excess drinking can make her careless of her life,
her diet making her conditions in fighting obesity even worse than it was supposed to be.
From the ward analysis, she experiences a low urine output per hour. The recommended
output of urine is 800 to 2000 milliliters which are per day (Lustig et al. 2016). When divided per