Don’t eat and drink too much, you don’t know how dangerous obesity is!

Obesity can be said to be an important characteristic of today's population. In fact, obesity is a global problem today. Both developed and underdeveloped countries are facing the problem of obesity. Obesity has become a major physical problem that people have to face! Today, let's talk about the issue of obesity!

01. Areas where obesity is most likely to occur today

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We often think that obesity is a disease of affluence. However, studies have found that obesity is more common in relatively poor rural areas. For example, a study on obesity published in Nature investigated obesity in several countries between 1985 and 2017 and found that the number of obese people in rural areas is increasing faster than in urban areas [1].

Lack of time for exercise and lack of sufficient planning due to busyness and livelihood are the main reasons, but there is no way around it. For every worker, work alone has consumed a lot of energy. In this case, one can only face a life of increasingly tight belts.

02. The direct impact of obesity on people

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The most direct impact of obesity is appearance. There is a saying that "being fat ruins everything", which means this. Now there are various AI tools that can "make you fat with one click". You can try it, which can subvert many people's impressions.

Even, many people keep saying "fat pigs". In fact, in most cases, pigs are much thinner than humans. The BMI of humans is between 18-24, and it is considered obese if it is over 24, but the body fat percentage of many pigs is only around 15. So next time, don't say you are fat like a pig.

03. Impact of obesity on health

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Of course, the impact of obesity is more than just this. In fact, obesity itself is a huge threat to health and is directly related to diseases that affect human life and health, such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, etc.

How does obesity lead to these diseases?

Let's talk about the relationship between obesity and atherosclerosis intuitively. Under normal circumstances, blood vessels flow naturally like a river. However, if we consume excess energy, especially excessive intake of fat, it is easy for the blood to become viscous and easy to deposit.

Under normal circumstances, the human body has a certain processing capacity, but if it is excessive for a long time, it will easily exceed the processing capacity, resulting in metabolic-related diseases such as hyperlipidemia and diabetes.

If local inflammation occurs in the blood vessels, it is easy for some inflammatory factors to begin to gather in these inflamed areas, causing local congestion, so our blood vessels will no longer be so smooth. If the blockage occurs in the coronary artery, it will lead to a series of diseases such as coronary heart disease.

04. Diseases related to obesity

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It can be said that obesity brings about a series of diseases. Current research has found that obesity is related to the following common diseases: hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, thrombosis, inflammation, etc.

Many of these diseases are associated with human death[2].

Contents are compiled from reference 2

Because of this, addressing the problem of obesity is also an important issue. Both the WHO and the health departments of various countries have proposed solutions to address the problem of obesity.

05. How to deal with obesity?

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In general, the key to tackling obesity is to reduce energy intake.

Don't underestimate these words, they are the basis of all weight loss methods.

As a living organism that cannot carry out photosynthesis, all our energy sources come from food intake, and our energy consumption includes daily exercise and the most basic basal metabolism.

The two are in a dynamic equilibrium relationship. If the balance is broken and intake exceeds absorption, the excess energy will be stored, leading to obesity. On the contrary, if intake is lower than absorption, the energy stored in the body will be consumed, resulting in weight loss.

Therefore, for anyone, the core principle of weight loss is to reduce energy intake and increase energy expenditure, so that weight loss can be achieved.

Reducing energy intake and increasing energy expenditure has become the only way to lose weight. This is what we often say: control your mouth and move your legs. The former is responsible for reducing energy intake, while the latter is responsible for increasing energy expenditure. With this balance, weight loss is just around the corner.

Of course, there are many other strategies to reduce energy.

One is the alternative logic

This type of meal replacement mainly reduces energy intake by reducing the energy intake under the same volume intake, in other words, reducing the energy density per unit volume. Many meal replacements follow this logic, using various dietary fibers to increase satiety and reduce total energy intake.

One is to reduce the absorption logic

In this case, the purpose is to reduce the body's energy intake when food has already been consumed normally. This is something that many people do not easily notice. After all, many times, people think that food cannot be excreted once it is eaten. However, a series of absorption processes are required for food to be ingested and finally absorbed and converted into energy. If you can play a role in the absorption process, then you can also reduce absorption to a certain extent.

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In general, obesity has a great impact on people, not only in appearance, but also easily causes a series of metabolic diseases, so dealing with obesity should be put on the agenda. Controlling your diet and moving your legs is the basic requirement. Of course, on this basis, using some daily content to help yourself lose weight is also a good choice.