Dangers of Obesity

Obesity isn't good for anyone, no matter what the age or gender. A person classified as obese is at least 40 pounds or greater overweight. It is easy to get into this situation since food is the American way. Everywhere you go, you see people eating. There is food at parties and social gatherings, at church, at the mall, and you name it every place you go. It is often very difficult to not simply give in to temptations when you are surrounded by the sights of food everywhere you go. This is why weight is "easy come on, and hard to go." This is true the older you get.

The heavier your body gets, and as your weight climbs further away from where you should be, it will really be hard for your body to try and maintain normalcy with your health. For one thing, this is very hard on the heart the heavier you are, not to mention the lungs too. Your heart is a small muscle really, and as you become heavier, try to picture blood trying to work its way through there into where it needs to go. It becomes more and more of an effort, and soon the heart won't be able to pump efficiently at all. And as a result, the lungs don't work well since you lack proper oxygen due to lack of blood flow or blood flow having to work too hard. You will notice as you become heavier, that you will be huffing and puffing when you walk. Getting up out of a chair becomes a great effort as you are heavier too, and any activity at all requires a huge effort.

High blood pressure is very common in obese people too since again, the blood flow has to work extremely hard to serve the heart and arteries. This is yet another danger.

Type 2 diabetes is common to obese people. Your pancreas is going to have a tough time processing insulin through your cells where it needs to be in order to lower blood sugar levels. The condition I am speaking of is insulin resistance which is where the insulin you are trying to make is not reaching the cells due to overweight issues. This is serious, and type 2 diabetes can have many different complications that come with it. By losing the weight, you'll improve the diabetes, but often times, type 2 diabetes is rather progressive and most people wind up taking insulin later on as their beta cells of the pancreas die away.

Reading this, I hope inspires those of you that have weight problems, to realize the dangers of obesity and begin to lose weight. A future heart attack, hypertension, and diabetes, isn't worth the risk of packing on more pounds!