Causes Of Obesity
There are many reasons for obesity. The imbalance between calorie you take and its utilization vary in an individual. Sometimes age, sex, and genes, psychological makeup, and environmental factors all are responsible for obesity. Following we are discussing some reasons of obesity.
1. Emotional factors: -Sometime people overeat due their mood. People suffering from depression, anger, anxiety, boredom, hopelessness and many other emotional problems have habit of overeating and this leads to obesity.
2. Genetic factors: - Sometimes obesity is a hereditary problem. This is due to genes as well as their eating habits. But it’s not sure that if you have relatives with overweight you will also be overweight.
3. Environmental factor: - Today’s environment is also responsible for obesity. Lifestyle we are living in develops habit of overeating and inactivity. We adopt the lifestyle of the people around us. Overeating and sedentary habits are important factor for obesity.
4. Sex: - Males have more muscles than a female on an average. Muscles are more responsible to burn the calories than any other tissues in the body so the males are able to burn more calories than a female even if they are on rest. So, woman are more likely to be overweight than a man.
5. Age: - The fat can easily increases with age. As the muscles loose with age and fat gain is more. Metabolism also slows down with age requiring lower calorie. So it is easy to become fat.
6. Pregnancy: - In women weight is likely to increase after pregnancy. They gain around 4 to 6 pound weight after pregnancy. This can increase with each pregnancy which results obesity in women.
Sometimes many medical conditions and medications are responsible for obesity. But these are not the more responsible factors than the overeating and inactivity. Some examples are following: -
7. Hypothyroidism.
8. Depression.
9. Several Medicines like steroids, depression reducing medicines, birth control pills.
10. Cushing syndrome.
11. Prader-Willi syndrome.
12. Polycystic ovarian syndrome.
13. “Glands” (hormonal problems).
14. Eating disorders like binge eating or bulimia.
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