Obesity: our advice

Obesity: our advice

Obesity is the cause of many cardiovascular diseases and promotes diabetes and cholesterol. Sport and controlled diet with a nutritionist can reduce weight gain and health risks.

UPDATE ON OBESITY AND ITS EFFECTS ON HEALTH

Between 1997 and 2013, the number of obese people in France increased by 76% or 3.3 million people, reaching 6.9 million today, 15% of adults! The phenomenon is worrying because besides the self-esteem that obesity causes for most people who are its victims, it has serious health consequences, can lose up to 10 years of life expectancy when it is morbid obesity.

How to define obesity?

We must distinguish obesity overweight or overweight. The weight is not sufficient to differentiate, scientific measures have been introduced: BMI (body mass index), which determines that obesity was there beyond a BMI of 30; waist circumference, which indicates abdominal obesity for men beyond 102 cm and for women beyond 88 cm in waist circumference; and finally, the turn ratio of waist / hips, showing obese when it is greater than 1 in men and 0.85 in women. If proven obesity, the doctor will ask a balance of fat to prevent cardiovascular disease in particular. For adults, surgical methods exist to help people with obesity.

The impact of obesity on health

Obesity can have serious repercussions on the health of people with cancer. It greatly increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, lipid abnormalities in the blood, high blood pressure, gallstones, gallbladder disorders, shortness of breath and sleep apnea. It also increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, gout, osteoarthritis of the knee, low back pain, phlebitis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and hormone-related cancers of the digestive system. Finally, obesity can cause decreased fertility for women as for men. Obesity affects more children, and is rigorously monitored, due to all these physical and psychological consequences, health professionals and parents.