Causes of obesity
February 1, 2010
Obesity denotes excessive body weight, which itself is a hazard. However, obesity is not an individual problem but has different related causes. It is important to understand the causes of obesity because the consciousness about the triggering causes is the best rational way to prevent this threatening disease from becoming induced in body.
The causes of obesity are called as risk factors for obesity because in some instances obesity may have fatal effect on body.
Family history has a recurring impact on inducing obesity on the next generation of family. This general trend is termed as genetic factor of obesity, assuming the fact that same family members more or less share same life style and diet. Even scientific research also has established a direct link between heredity and obesity.
Environment is one of the major triggering factors of obesity. It includes several factors in its range like life style behaviors, physical activity level, regular diet, eating pattern, and other intriguing factors which are unhealthy in long-term –effect. In general, it has been found that environment induces healthy or unhealthy habit in an individual, and thus environmental factors play a major role in triggering or preventing obesity.
Some physical disorders induce obesity in the affected patients; rather it is better to say some disorders may lead to obesity as associated symptom.
For example, polycystic ovarian syndrome, Cushing’s syndrome, hypothyroidism etc. diseases are associated with obesity induction problem that means patients affected by these diseases are generally induced by obesity.
There are certain medications which induce obesity in the patients consuming these medicines. For example, steroid group of medicines, antidepressants, certain specific medications for psychiatric disorders are proven as obesity inducing medications. In an average these medicines promote fluid retention in body and have overall stimulating effect on appetite thus increases calorie input.
Inadequate consumption of water and fluids also trigger obesity because this unhealthy habit prevents body from flushing out accumulated toxins from body and thus initiates fluid retention problem resulting in increasing body weight.
Lack of sleep at night may induce obesity. In fact the relation between obesity and sleeplessness are linked together. It was already proved that sleeplessness is triggered by obesity, but modern research supports that inadequate sleep initiates quick weight gain for any individual at any age.
Leaving apart the disease and health issues, the factors like environment and genetic factors are called under lying causes of obesity whereas the other factors like medications, diseases etc. are called active causes of obesity.
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