Obesity and Diabetes: Health Risks and Impact on Women's Health

This report investigates the relationship between obesity and diabetes, focusing specifically on the health risks and impacts experienced by women. It begins by defining obesity as excessive body fat and highlights various contributing factors such as overeating, genetics, and psychological factors. The report then explores the connection between obesity and diabetes, explaining how overeating leads to increased sugar levels and insulin resistance, ultimately causing diabetes. It also discusses the symptoms of both conditions, including breathing disorders, high blood pressure, urinary infections, and sexual dysfunction. Furthermore, the report examines the global prevalence of obesity among men and women, noting a higher rate of obesity among women since 1975. The impact of diabetes due to obesity in women is also discussed, including depression, anger, and anxiety. Finally, the report suggests measures to control obesity, such as proper diet, stable blood sugar levels, and encouraging physical activity. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of a healthy lifestyle to mitigate the adverse effects of obesity and diabetes on women's health.

Obesity and Diabetes
Introduction
 Obesity can be termed as “excessive body fat”, it is a type of disorder that involves excessive
body 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 risk
of 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.
Figure 2: Health risks of Obesity
(Source: 10 Health Risks of Being Overweight or Obese, 2016)
Comparision of Obesity among men & women at Global level
Figure 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 among
women (Global obesity rates continue to climb, 2016). This rate increased highly with time and the
changes that has taken place among male obesity is low when compared with women.
Symptoms of obesity and symptoms of diabetes caused due to obesity
Symptoms of obesity includes breathing disorders, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.
Symptoms of diabetes caused due to obesity are as follows:
 Urinary infection
 Oral yeast and vaginal infections
 Female sexual dysfunction
Female sexual dysfunction: When high blood glucose damages nerve fibres, then
diabetic neuropathy occurs. This reduces the sensual feeling in different parts of
women body like legs, hands and feet.
Impact of diabetes due to obesity in women
Impact 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:
 Depression
 Anger
 Anxiety
Depression: The condition of overweight and diabetes causes low blood sugar levels due which it
causes hunger and eating too much (Miettinen, Rönö and Gylling, 2014). This slowly makes the
condition more worse and increase high health related issues.
Figure 3: Relationships among obesity, diabetes, and periodontal disease (Source: Shimazaki and
Saito, 2000)
Women who have obesity, consume high quantity of food and this causes in creation of
carbohydrates. During digestion, carbohydrates break down into sugar and when the
level of sugar is high, then it causes diabetes. Further, Periodontitis is a type of Gum
disease that is also caused due to obesity. These happen when there are changes in
glucose level.
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Causes of diabetes to women with obesity
Individuals who have obesity have high pressure on making use of insulin in
order to control their blood sugar levels. Due to this reason, women are more likely to
develop diabetes (Obesity and childhood obesity, 2015). Further, diabetes is a type of
chronic condition that is associated with fluctuations that take place in levels of sugar
in blood. The level of insulin increases when intake of food is high.
Measure to control obesity
 Proper diet
 Stable blood sugar level
 Encouraging physical activity
Proper diet: Every women must develop plan to maintain their health and calories by following
healthy eating (Bray and Popkin, 2014). Major focus should be made on fruits, veggies which are
rich in calcium and protein, this can reduce every uncertainty and issues that result in obesity
problems that also becomes the reason for diabetes. This an effective way to reduce diabetes when
women take proper and planned diet.