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.

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Diabetes Mellitus comes from the Greek word “diabainein” which means transparent or shower and in the Latin is “mellitus“, meaning sweet, that is why diabetes mellitus known as diabetes. Diabetes Mellitus is a disease which level of sugar inside someone’s blood becomes high because sugar inside the blood can’t be used by the body properly.

Increase of blood sugar can be caused by:

* The insulin hormones are reduced
* Sensitivity decreases of insulin hormones
* Stress

Stress can aggravate the health conditions of diabetic, therefore it is expected that stress management is performed during the time of healing and treatment. These things are presented by Reza Gunawan in the workshop of “Stress Management in diabetes“

Recognize the signs if someone has diabetes, as quoted from diabetes library are:

1. Frequent urinate
Urinate will become often when there is too much glucose in the blood. If the insulin (a hormone that controls blood sugar) is none or less then kidneys can not filter glucose back into the blood. Then the kidneys will draw additional water from the blood to destroy the glucose. This makes bladder become full and make someone urinate frequently.

2. Often feels thirsty
Because of frequent urinate, you will become more thirsty, because the process of glucose destruction is difficult then water inside the blood is sucked to destroy it. So that someone needs to drink more to replace the water that has been lost.

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