Obesity is the excess fat in your body due to genetic characteristics or excessive consumption of food. If at all possible obesity conditions must be avoided, especially in children who, after a certain age, is impossible to reverse the growth into obesity.
The best indicator to know if you are obese, if you don’t believe the mirror, is the Body Mass Index (BMI) calculated in a metric system. It is easy to ready by using the graph below. If the index is between 25 and 29 then this person is considered overweight. An index of 30 and above determines that a person is obese. To find these indexes for the whole family and keep control of their weight, we recommend buying the analytical scale in the Health Store below.
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The consequences of obesity go beyond the personal looks that might result in ostracism. Worse, in years to come serious healthy issues may arise. Obesity can cause hypertension possibly resulting in a stroke. Obese people have high cholesterol and triglycerides which can cause a heart attack. Obesity may cause type-2 diabetes which can lead to blindness. Another consequence may be bad blood circulation which in some cases leads to the need of leg amputation. Not a pretty picture!
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Fast foods, snacks and sedentary hours are the main causes for obesity in children.
Obesity in children is the responsibility of their parents who should be firm on their children’s diet, exercise, and time spent in front of the TV. They will be sorry if they grow up to be obese adults.
The Endocrine Society and the Hormonal Foundation estimated that American’s direct and indirect costs of obesity surpass $ 130,000,000,000 (One Hundred Thirty BILLION dollars) per year. Of this amount, $ 54.0 Billion are for direct costs such as prevention and treatment of illnesses derived from obesity including heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Indirect costs are wages lost because of the inability to work due to obesity and its related illnesses or because of early death. In addition, employers estimate they lose $ 45.0 billion due obese employee’s inefficiency, absenteeism and replacement costs. Payments for these costs come from your pocket, your community and the State and Federal budgets, paid with your taxes. Will you help reducing these costs?
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Stroke and heart attack may cause instant death.
Liver and kidney failure result in painful living and expensive treatment.
Joint damage eventually requires expensive pelvis and knee replacement.
Obesity causes diabetes which eventually blocks circulation to legs requiring
their amputation!
| | |  Hispanic women have a tendency to obesity in part because of poor diet, too much fried food, and lack of exercise.
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