Problems of excess weight and obesity

Published: 30th October 2009
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Most people still believed that excess weight - the problem solely aesthetic nature, while doctors raise the alarm for a long time already, comparing obesity with delayed-action bomb. Its danger lies in the fact that it not only increases the probability of Development of an entire group of diseases, but also simultaneously greatly increases the risk of premature mortality. The first lines in the «black» list of illnesses belong to cardiovascular disease, cancer and second type of diabetes, which were claiming 56 million lives each year.

The link between excess weight and heart diseases is exactly proved. Overweight people suffered from Atherosclerosis (deposition of cholesterol on the walls of arteries)in 2 times more often than the lean population, hypertension (high blood pressure) - in 3 times, myocardial infarction (as a direct consequence of atherosclerosis of the cardiac vessels)- in 4-5 times more frequently. The World Heart Federation (WHF) has warned that obesity could become the most frequent cause of the heart disease, if we will not stop the spread of unhealthy lifestyles.




Overweight - it is also a powerful factor in the development of diabetes. Actual figures speak for themselves - up to 90% of patients with second type of diabetes are obese. Over the past five years, their number increased by 11%. No wonder that obesity and diabetes even got the infamous nickname «sweet couple».

The point is that such metabolic disorders as "insulin- resistance" (insufficient response of the organism's cells on insulin when content of it in the blood is on proper level) directly depends on a combination of factors, among which not the last role played by obesity, particularly fat accumulation in the abdominal cavity, as well as high blood pressure. This disorder is not a diabetes yet, but such violation leads to the fact that the human body is not able to use glucose as must to and exposed to the risk to get Type II diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Finally, as has been recently proven, obesity increases the risk of development of at least nine types of cancer.


A special apprehension of doctors causes the number of children with excessive weight, only in the EU countries 103 million of them, and each year adds another 400 thousand. As for the world statistics, according to the first worldwide study of childhood obesity, every tenth child in the world is overweight and nearly 45 million are obese. Consequently, each such a child has a higher risk of falling ill from diabetes, heart problems and other diseases, even in childhood and youth.

Judge for yourself - now you can meet even ten-years-old child with high blood pressure problem and diabetes increasingly being detected in group of children younger than 18 years. This means that about one-third of the children of the world will turn into adults, suffering from severe forms of obesity and related health problems. Doctors warn: there is a real danger at a big number of future generations of people could die before their parents.



At the end of XX century in medicine was introduced the concept of «metabolic syndrome X», or as it is called, «deadly quartet». It unites such diseases as diabetes type II, hypertension, atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, are currently the major causes of death among people around the world. As you can see one of the major factors in the development of these diseases is the obesity. Two years ago, the number of deaths associated with excess weight, was 2.5 million, to date figures are steadily rising.

There is an official statistics: if suddenly, magically, the given problem will disappear by itself, life expectancy of people all over the world would increase for 5-10 years. For comparison - treatment of all inhabitants of a planet from a cancer would increase average life expectancy only for 1 year. Scientists continue to sound alarm, indefatigably signaling in their reports about the lack of attention paid to obesity problem.

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