Obesity-making change.

Obesity - Making Changes

To make big changes in your lifestyle, you have to be committed. Ask yourself if this is the right time. Are you ready to make a well thought-out plan and stay with it? Do you have the support of your family and friends? Have you talked with your doctor, and do you know what your first steps will be?

Ask your doctor to help you:

• Identify things that cause you to gain weight.
• Identify any medicines you are taking that may make it harder for you to lose weight.
• Make lifestyle changes instead of dieting.

Your doctor may recommend the following professionals to help you make changes:

• A registered dietitian can help you determine how many calories you need and how best to get them.
• An exercise specialist or personal trainer can help you plan a safe and effective exercise program.
• A counselor or psychiatrist can help if you have an emotional problem such as depression or anxiety, have experienced sexual or physical abuse, have family problems, or abuse drugs or alcohol.
• A surgeon may be needed if you and your doctor think that obesity (bariatric) surgery is an option.

When you are ready to start making changes, do not take on too much too soon. Anything you can do today that was healthier than yesterday is a step in the right direction.

health benefits for weight loss..

Obesity - Health Benefits of Weight Loss

Research shows the following health benefits for weight loss:

• Weight loss may improve survival in those who have an obesity-related disease, especially type 2 diabetes.³
• A modest weight loss of 4.4lb to 9.7lb resulted in a significant lowering of blood pressure.⁹
• People with asthma who lost an average of 31.3lb over 1 year showed improved lung function and overall health, and with weight loss, the number of severe asthma episodes (exacerbations) and oral corticosteroid courses were reduced.¹⁰
• People with type 2 diabetes who lost weight had lower blood sugar levels and were able to use less medicine to lower their blood sugar levels.³
• Sustained weight loss prevented new cases of type 2 diabetes in people who were obese.³
• People with obstructive sleep apnea who lost as little as 10% of their weight improved their sleep patterns and had less daytime sleepiness.³

For thousands of years obesity was rarely seen.^[157] It was not until the 20th century that it became common, so much so that in 1997 the WHO formally recognized obesity as a global epidemic.^[75] As of 2005 the WHO estimates that at least 400 million adults (9.8%) are obese, with higher rates among women than men.^[1] The rate of obesity also increases with age at least up to 50 or 60 years old.^[9] Once considered a problem only of high-income countries, obesity rates are rising worldwide. These increases have been felt most dramatically in urban settings.^[1] The only remaining region of the world where obesity is not common is sub-Saharan Africa.

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obesity statistics

- 34 percent of Americans over age 20 are obese.
- In 2006, were more than 72 million obese people in America.
- Obesity occurs in more women than men, more than 35 percent of women are obese compared to just over 33 percent of men.
- Obesity is founding 40 percent of men aged 40-59 and in 41 percent of women in this age group.
- Obesity is found 28 percent of younger men aged 20-39, and in just over 30 percent of women in this age group.
- Obesity is found in 32 percent of men aged 60 and over, and it is found in about 30 percent of women aged 65 or older.

effect of obesity

• will make someone less active and lazy.
• become stress and deppression.
• self skill may be down when someone get obesity. Its means, they becomes be a shyness person.
  

means of obesity

Obesity and fatness are not synonymous term. Obesity has a definite implication of an undesirable state, either medically, or physiologically or aesthetically. Frequently this implication have not being properly demonstrated in a controlled scientific fashion.