Disease and The Potential of Obesity
Definition of overweight or obese varies is depend on how we look but generally, obesity is excess body fat which is experienced chronically by a person. At normal condition, the body fat serves as energy reserve, regulating body temperature, as a protection from trauma and other functions.
Ideally, women’s body consists of 25 – 30% fat, while on men 18 – 23%. When the body fat exceeds more than 30% on women and 25% on men then that person could be categorized as fat or obese. The easy way to calculate the obesity is to compare the height (m) with weight (kg) or known as the Body Mass Index (BMI). Apart from cosmetic problem, obesity is a serious health issue.
In America, there are 300,000 deaths per year that caused by obesity factor. Obesity can lead to serious chronic diseases such as: Insulin Resistance. Insulin allows the body to deliver the glucose as a fuel for energy formation into the cells. By moving the glucose into the cells then the insulin would keep the levels of blood sugar to normal level.
On obese people, there is a high-fat accumulation in their body, while fat is very resistant to the insulin. Thus, to deliver the glucose into fat cells and to keep the blood sugar levels remained normal, the pancreas will produces the insulin in large amounts.
Eventually, the pancreas can no longer produce insulin in large amounts so that the blood sugar levels gradually rise and then there is going to happen what is called type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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