Literature Review on Overweight and Weight Loss

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overweight and weight
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Overweight and weight loss
Overweight is defined as excessive fat accumulation which presents
health-related issues in the human body. It is very complex for the
consumers to control the issue of overweight and around 56% of consumers
in the worldwide are suffering from the overweight issue. Body mass index
is the simplest process for defining or classifying overweight and obesity in
the consumers (Batsis, et al., 2017). The aim of this research is to analyze
the key issues linked with overweight and identify the intervention
programs for addressing such kind of problem. In which a literature review
will be conducted for analyzing and understanding the outcomes of previous
studies related to overweight and weight loss.
It is observed that overweight is a very common topic for the research
and numbers of papers were published in the last five years. This section
mainly focuses on the overweight and their impacts on the human body
system and reviews the findings of previous research articles.
Gallus, et al., (2015) examined that overweight is defined as abnormal
fat that produces diabetes and obesity-related disorders in the human body.
Consumers that have more than 25 BMI may suffer from the overweight and
larger than 30 can lead the symptoms of obesity disorder. It is observed
that BMI delivers the most useful population-level in order to determine the
overweight and obesity-related issues in the consumers. The rate of
overweight is growing quickly because numbers of the individuals are
eating unhealthy foods and items that directly impact on the structure of
the body.
From previous studies, it is observed that lack of exercise is a key
issue that increases overweight and obesity disorders in the consumers and
more than 56% consumers were suffered from obesity disorder in last two
years (GBD 2015 Obesity Collaborators, 2017). According to Güngör,

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(2014) overweight is a very common health issue faced by the consumers
which lead various health disorders including diabetes, CVD disorder, and
heart-related issues and so on.
It is very important for consumers to focus on dietary plans and
monitor their daily life in order to control health-related disorders. It is true
that the consumers should follow proper dietary plans and exercise for
losing weight and improving wellbeing effectively. It is argued that both
obesity and overweight are leading health disorder in worldwide that can
impact on the daily life activities and body functions. Jensen, et al., (2014)
supported these arguments and reported that the lack of exercise and
proper utilization of healthy items may lead to overweight or obesity-related
issues in the individuals.
The rate of overweight is very high in the men rather than women
because men do not focus on their dietary plan and eat unhealthy items on a
regular basis which improve their weights. As compared with the previous
investigation it is observed that the selected paper provided in-depth
analysis about overweight and provided interventions programs for
reducing such health issues. Recent literature conducted by Jura, & Kozak,
(2016) examined that adults aged between 17 and 25 years are more likely
towards overweight and obesity because of lack of education and utilization
of unhealthy items. World health organization provides reports and data
related to overweight and weight loss annually which can help the
consumers for understanding the impacts of overweight on health. It is
observed that in the year 2016, around 1.9 billion individuals aged 18 years
and older were suffered from overweight due to lack of education.
Locher, et al., (2016) stated that it is very important for health care
systems to provide proper training to the nurses and motivate the
individuals by providing information about overweight and their impacts on
the human body. Around 45% of consumers in Australia are suffering from