Overweight is one of the modern civilization diseases that more and more people suffer from. It affects children and adults, and excessive fat gain, which leads to obesity, can cause many chronic diseases. Obesity has various causes that may be related to biology, psyche, lifestyle. Knowing the reason for the appearance of unnecessary kilograms is one of the best ways to lose weight effectively.
Obesity has a different background. Sometimes the cause may be medications, other times lifestyle or diseases. Knowing the reason is very important – many people are trying to lose body fat unsuccessfully, while the problem lies in factors that would not have occurred to them.
What are the types of obesity?
The most common type of obesity is simple obesity, which is caused by eating too many caloric foods. Accumulating energy in the body, caused by excessive amounts of food combined with a passive lifestyle, devoid of physical activity, becomes the cause of excess body fat. In this way, fat is deposited in different parts of the body.
According to statistics, 20% of people in Poland are obese, and almost 45% of men and 35% of women are overweight. Unfortunately, these are not promising results. The cause of obesity may be both excessive food intake, genetic and environmental factors, and low resting metabolism. Then only increased physical effort can help.
Based on the measurement of body weight, waist-hip ratio, waist circumference, we can determine what type of obesity we are dealing with:
- Generalized obesity – i.e. simple, involving the distribution of adipose tissue evenly throughout the body, most often occurs in people who had a problem with being overweight in childhood.
- Gluteofemoral obesity – that is, in people with a “pear” figure, it most often occurs in women. The shoulders and waist are rather thin, and from the waist down there is overweight. It is just as dangerous as abdominal obesity, but it is more difficult to lose it.
- Abdominal obesity – in people of the “apple” type. With this type, there is a risk of additional problems: coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes. It is more common in men, but usually occurs in women during the menopause.
Obesity divided into two categories: primary and secondary. The following factors influence the formation of the primary:
- Lifestyle – lack of exercise and unhealthy eating,
- Genetics – independent of us,
- Biology – nutrition regulates the central nervous system when disorders occur in it, affects what and how we eat,
- Psychology – when obesity is affected by mood disorders, mainly stress.
Obesity secondary is the result of metabolic diseases, chromosomal defects, taking certain drugs, diseases of the central nervous system, damage to the hypothalamus of the brain.