Health hazard of obesity

Obesity itself is a health hazard. Additionally, obesity is a major risk factor for at least 10 leading reasons for developing fatal diseases in human body. Obesity is accounted as major trigger for certain problems like back pain, arthritis, or gall stone.

It has been observed that out of 10 female diabetic patients 8 suffer from obesity problem. It has been clinically proved that obesity is one of the main triggers of diabetes because excess weight of body imposes insulin resistance in health system.

Hypertension is one of the major heart related diseases which triggers heart diseases and stroke. The risk of development of blood pressure increases with ascending body weight and age. In most of the instances, women aged over 65 become vulnerable for high blood pressure problem. On the other hand, it has been observed that weight reducing is a natural way to control high blood pressure.

Obesity is one of the main triggers for raising cholesterol level in blood of an individual. Most often it is found that hypertension and high cholesterol problem almost run together. Obesity can cause fatty liver and in some instances initiates enlarged liver as well.

It has been observed that one third of the female heart patients are victims of obesity. On the other hand, over weight women are more vulnerable to development of heart risk. Women who accumulate fats around their waist have more risk in developing heart disease.

Women who are obese are more vulnerable to the risk of development of uterine cancer. Obese women also suffer from infertility due to irregular secretion of estrogen and scanty production of balancing hormone progesterone.

Obesity stimulates excess secretion of bile juice from liver, which is stored in gallbladder and results in formation of gallstone. Obese women suffer from gallstone than obese men. The possibility for developing gallstone increases with ascending age and weight.

Obesity exerts unusual pressure on body joints and thus causes wear and tear of ligaments. Extra pressure on bone joints causes swelling of the joints as well as affects the weight bearing capacity of the bone joints of knee, hips, ankles, spines. Obesity exerts extra pressure on spine and causes mild to severe back pain.