Main causes of obesity and treatment interventions

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Main causes of obesity and
treatment interventions
6/22/2019

Main causes of obesity and treatment interventions
Introduction
Obesity develops evidently into the new epidemic in modern society. Obese person means a
person who possesses excess body fat with lots of health problems. The causes of obesity can
vary person to person, with all these the important factor is imbalance between the calories
intake and consumption. The main essay consists with the discussions about consequences of
excess body fat that directly related to health problems, treatments include some little changes in
dietary plan, physical activity, and behavioral changes (NIDDK, 2018). Additionally, report also
demonstrated their degree of success and implementation.
Causes of obesity
Obesity becomes a world’s health threat and all most every country in today’s world is obese
society. Several factors come to play like Changes in the culture, sedentary lifestyle, eating
habits, work patterns and food production which contributed to increase in obesity and
overweight among citizens nowadays. Obesity also responsible for birth of many chronic
diseases like hypertension, type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis cardiovascular disease consist with
stroke and cancer (Kovesdy et al., 2017). An Individual habit is a first and foremost step that
plays a major role in overweight and obesity. Habit of overeating leads to obesity, Epidemiologic
studies clearly show the contribution of high calories in diet leads to weight gain. In addition,
Release of gastrointestinal tract, hormones in brain, and in fat cells all are responsible to
influence the individual’s metabolism and eating habits.
Genetics: Genes are the most effective factor that leads to obesity and generally transmitted
from their ancestors. Another main reason is availability of disorders as Prader-Willi syndrome.
Scientists also reported that hormone problems like underactive thyroid, Cushing syndrome and
polycystic ovary syndrome are also proof for overweight and obesity. For example- deficiency
of leptin hormone, it is responsible for transmitted the singles to brain for eating less when body
stores fat at high level. If, for some reason leptin unable to transmit the signals to brain then it
results in obesity.
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Main causes of obesity and treatment interventions
Drugs and Medications : Intake of some medications and drugs are also responsible for
weight gain as a side effect. For example – atypical antipsychotics, anticonvulsants,
hypoglycemic medications and some antidepressants drugs all these pharmaceutical drugs alter
the functioning of body and brain which, results increasing appetite and deduction in metabolic
rate (Domecq et al., 2015). Although drugs are lesser effective to promote obesity than,
overeating and physical inactivity or exercise.
Food availability and toxic environment : The surrounded physical and social
environment also influences humans for food selection. Availability of fresh food in toxic
environment is quite difficult or expensive. It results people have no other choice rather than buy
unhealthy junk food which is available at cheaper rate all over the world (Brazier, 2018).
Healthy leaving in the toxic world is now just impossible where food producers spent lot of
money over aggressive marketing that leads addiction among people, as people do not even
realize they all are getting misled.
Emotional factors, stress and sleeping: Obesity increases day by day gradually
because of unhealthy diet, emotional factors, lifestyle and emerging culture. Sometimes humans
in stress behave differently and in condition of bored, angry, upset, they unusually eat more than
regular diet (Harcombe, 2015). Sleeping disorder also leads to release of control over appetite
and it results in excess use of energy.
Treatments of obesity and Preclusions of obesity
Prevalence of obesity becomes the biggest concern over the worldwide, there is a need for
strategic implementation, and different prevention factors for reduction and tackle the excess
weight gain contributing factors (Chan & Woo, 2010). There are many barriers arises in
obesity treatments like sedentary lifestyle, environmental and socioeconomic factors. Some of
the treatments include like-
Alter in food and physical activity : alter inhabits are the healthier and easier choices
to reduce one pound of fat, a person needs to burn 3,500 calories (Williams, 2014). Eliminating
crash dieting as it leads to the additional weight gain and adds fresh foods in diet that contains
high fiber. Intake of high fiber diet helps the body to feel full more quickly as the level of energy
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