Obesity Causes and Public Health Interventions

This report discusses the issue of obesity, its causes, and the impact it has on human health. It also explores various public health intervention measures that can be taken to prevent obesity. The report highlights the importance of healthy eating habits, physical activity, and social well-being in preventing obesity. It also mentions the risks associated with obesity, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease. Overall, the report provides a comprehensive overview of the causes and prevention strategies for obesity.

MAIN CAUSES OF
OBESITY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Obesity is epidemic in US. These situations puts individual at higher risk for serious
diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. It is mainly caused by eating too much fast
foods and moving too little. Thus, if someone does not burn extra fat in their body through
physical activity, they consume high amount of fat, sugars and energy much of surplus power
will store in their body as fat (Rtveladze and et. al., 2014). Unhealthy life style helps in gaining a
lot of weight that directly impact on their health and issues get occurs before that process. The
present report will explain about the main causes of obesity that influence on human health and
make them ill. Unhealthy lifestyles, culture, interventions and environment are the main reasons
of obesity that develop many diseases in human body frequently. The major causes of this
disease is unhealthy lifestyle and genetics that lead diabetes and other diseases. A person is likely
to develop obesity if both or one parents are obese. Genetics are affect hormones involved in fat
regulation, for example, one genetic syndrome cause of obesity is leptin deficiency. Overeating,
diet high in simple carbohydrate, frequency of eating, medications and physical inactivity also
causes obesity. Genetic, is present in person that develop obesity, it effects hormones involved
fat regulation. Metabolism, is set of chemical processes that occur within living organism in
order to maintain life. It is a term that are using to describe all chemicals reactions include in
balancing loving state of organism or cells. Environment, effect human life and health that is
very difficult to maintain. Behaviour and culture both are the factors that causes obesity, most of
the children's does not like to eat healthy food, they like fast food or junk foods that develop fats
in their body.
MAIN BODY
Obesity has been emerged as one of the major health issue in recent decades and have
been a major challenge for health experts all over the world (Styne and et.al., 2017). There are
several causes of obesity that are required to be effectively monitored by the professionals
working in health sector. It is important to generate awareness by applying effective measures
for the identification and management of obesity. Some major causes of obesity are:
Unhealthy lifestyle: The fast pace lifestyle that had become imminent within an
organisation will impact the sales of the organisation and setting up of operations in an effective
manner. Consumption of junk food, sedentary lifestyle, high sugar intake, lack of physical
exercises and excessive calorie intake will lead an individual to gain a lot of weight. These all
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factors further make the management of body weight to be very critical and may have other risky
health complications like hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular ailments and other severe
diseases (Fang and et.al., 2015). The overeating and eating highly unhealthy food is also a major
factor that leads to failing of the health conditions and increasing the weight of an individual on a
higher scale.
Environmental condition: The conditions prevailing in surrounding of an individual
will impact the health of an organisation. The practice of consumption of alcohol, smoking,
having an unhealthy diet, using drugs and poor sleep pattern is one of the major reason of
increase of obesity in UK. Obesity lead to improper morbidity in the UK which has increased the
mortality rates (Rtveladze and et.al., 2014). Thus, individual must practice healthy lifestyle
habits and active participation to improve the immunity and well being.. Other factors like
pollution, lack of fresh food, water and air, avoidance of health factors are few of major elements
that impacts the maintaining of health condition within society. Stress and depression are also a
major reason behind rise of obesity in society.
Culture: The work culture and regional or demographical conditions can also be the key
reason behind rise in obesity and decrease in good health condition. For instance, in Mexican
culture, people tends to gain weight due to their high calorific and oily food while on the other
hand, in Japan, usage of more and more leafy vegetables, lean meat and physical activities are
major reason behind their long and healthy life span. Maintenance of health condition is
dependent on will and determination of people that will help in reduction of obesity within a
society. The race and ethnicity is also a major factor behind setting up of health and wellness
goals and encourages an individual to achieve them with determination and efforts towards
healthy living.
Genetics: This is a rare yet crucial and significant factor that plays an important role in
increase of obesity within an individual or society as a whole. Various syndromes and other
inherited health conditions are an effective reason behind a person being overweight or obese. In
this case, a person is meant to be obese and he/she has no choice (Bauer and et.al., 2014). The
slow and gradual metabolism is one of the biggest biological reason behind occurrence of obesity
in societies of UK. Proper medical attention and behavioural aspects can be undertaken within
the organisation that will help in proper planning of the health care measures that impacts the
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overall well being of a person or a society. It will also improve the sales of the organisation and
also in increasing health condition of a person.
Interventions: Different medical interventions can be used by the professionals for
maintaining helatyhy lifestyle of the individuals to have a high level of health care operations.
This will help in improving active participation of public to improve the quality of health related
services. The usage of GP or obesity surgeries, having proper counselling in the school level for
childhood obesity and timely screening of the health concerns related to obesity are few of the
major intervention or improvement measure that will help in handling the growth measures on a
higher level (Atkins and et.al., 2014). Besides this, government, health and social care settings
and even individuals can promote the health and social care services within the society. Other
than this, reducing the intake of sugar and salt, promoting healthy eating are few of the effective
measures that will help in proper management of the health and social care setting within the
organisation.
Public health intervention program
Also, the rise in the awareness about social well being, physical activities etc. can be
undertaken which will help in improving the health condition and well being of an individual
within society. Other than this, public health intervention measures can be adopted for proper
planning of the preventive measures of obesity.
CONCLUSION
This report discussed about obesity and main causes of this disease that impact on human
health and develop more issues. Despite much public health intervention the issue of obesity is
not been resolve as this has limited success in resolving and preventing the issue. This program
does not run successfully and it also has limited success in coming up and resolving with concept
to prevent obesity. It runs by different of companies including non governmental and
governmental health departments. It discusses many factors that develop obesity and increase
amount of many diseases that is very risky for person health. It was a chronic situation defined
by an extra amount of fat in body. It has been concluded that obesity is very serious disease that
effects overall activities of person very much. High blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol,
heart attach, gouty arthritis etc. are risks that associated with obesity. This unit discussed about
main causes of this disease that occur human life, for example, Diet high simple carbohydrate,
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overeating, genetics, culture etc. Unhealthy lifestyle is one of the major causes of obesity. Health
promotion, food and water supplementation and vaccination are common types of interventions.
REFERENCES
Books and journals
Atkins, J.L. and et. al., 2014. Sarcopenic obesity and risk of cardiovascular disease and
mortality: a population‐based cohort study of older men. Journal of the American
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Bauer, U.E. and et. al., 2014. Prevention of chronic disease in the 21st century: elimination of
the leading preventable causes of premature death and disability in the USA. The
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Rtveladze, K. and et. al., 2014. Obesity prevalence in Mexico: impact on health and economic
burden. Public health nutrition. 17(1). pp.233-239.
Styne, D.M. And et. al., 2017. Pediatric obesity—assessment, treatment, and prevention: an
Endocrine Society Clinical Practice guideline. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &
Metabolism. 102(3). pp.709-757.
Fang, S. and et. al., 2015. Intestinal FXR agonism promotes adipose tissue browning and reduces
obesity and insulin resistance. Nature medicine. 21(2). pp.159.
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