Introduction
There are many reasons of obesity but to go deep inside the problem you need to know why it happens and how it can happen to you. Nowadays the world obesity stands as one of the most common disorder in the world. Many other associated problems tag along with obesity. All these problems when put together result in what we called it ‘Metabolic Syndrome’. Some of the additional problems include improper lipid profiles, higher blood pressure and higher blood sugar levels.
Obese people who suffer from this syndrome are at a high risk of heart problems and type II diabetes. People who can maintain the proper body weight can prevent such fatal problems with dieting and regular exercising.
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Does will power affect obesity?
Many of us feel that being overweight and obese is a result of lacking willpower. Although, you're only partially correct. On one hand , the causes of obesity include an eating disorder and an unhealthy lifestyle. On the other hand, there are some peoples who are affected by the metabolic syndrome. In this case, people can't control their eating habit and lifestyle. As a result, they completely fail to prevent or restrict the symptoms of obesity.
In this post, we'll talk about the major causes of obesity, excessive weight gain and metabolic syndrome. Most of these are not related to the lack of confidence or willpower.
1. Genetic problems
The genetic component is extremely effective when the obesity is the problem. You often have seen that children with overweight parents are more likely to develop obesity as compared to lean or slim parents. Although, this doesn't give assurance of the fact that there are no other causes of obesity. Your eating habit is more likely to determine which genes are more expressive and which are not expressive
.Sometimes , You can categorize people involving in western diets as more obese than others. The problem is that the people who start these type of diet do not get genetically affected. The next generations, without any fault of theirs, have to bear the brunt.
2. Not exercising
There are a lot of people who still manages their body weight even after eating a lot food as well as junk food. Possibilities are that they exercise a lot and shed all the extra calories they consume. If you have the correct kind of exercise level you will not gain much weight unless you eat junk food every day. People can have everything in moderation, even junk food, but if they do exercise and reduce eating bad carbs, they can manage a good weight.
3. Sugars
The worst way of eating food is adding sugar to it. Americans loves sugar and that's why the obesity rates have gone higher than ever. Sugar creates changes in biochemical process as well as the hormonal reactions in the body. This results in excessive weight gain.
Sugar is a mixture of 50% glucose and 50% fructose.. While fructose can only be secreted from sugars and gulcose can be obtained from some other food items.
4. Junk food
Processed foods is usually heavy on the stomach, Processed foods is usually heavy on the stomach, uneasy to digest and the supplement in it are not at all healthy. The aim of manufacturing these food items is to make sure that people find it difficult to resist. These food items are usually inexpensive and its long-running due to so many preservatives added to them.
No doubt, these foods are very tasty and they sell like hotcakes. But have you ever notice that such foods also cause of overeating? Most of the junk foods have low nutrition. Avoid to eating such foods to prevent the symptoms of obesity.
5.Extreme marketing skills
The common barriers to treating obesity are marketers who try to sell all kinds of unhealthy food items and junk food. They are not hesitated before promoting such foods in the name of healthy foods. They try to make the packages more attractive and colourful to bring more customers.
Unfortunately, the main victims, in this case, are our children. Children, nowadays love to eat junk food as most of the parents live makeshift lives. From a young age, Children develop obesity and health problem and they face the consequences later.
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