What are the causes/effects of being overweight

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The Causes and Effects of Being an Overweight

Since time immemorial , people seem to be so conscious with the way they look and with the manner other people perceive them . Oftentimes , this consciousness mainly starts from the most salient form of a human being - the physical form . People pay too much time , effort , and money just to maintain their desired appearance , fashion style , and most of all weight . But how about those people who do not care at all about their weight ? More

specifically , how about those people who , even they do not intend , belong to the group of overweight people

Overweight is one of the leading chronic diseases in America (Stewart and Brook , 1983 . Indeed , overweight is a type of a disease . Unlike what most people believe , overweight is not simply a condition wherein a person weighs higher than the supposed-to-be- or the recommended body weight for his certain age . Medically speaking , overweight signifies that a person has a deposit of body fat or adipose tissue larger than the required amount in to be considered as a healthy person . Why then a person becomes overweight ? In addition , since overweight is a kind of disease , it also has its symptoms and impact to a person being diagnosed with it . What then could we say about the effects of being an overweight ? How could we categorize these effects

Basically , overweight is due to too much intake of calories and lack of spending it . The imbalance between the two could also be affected by several factors . Some of these factors may include physical ones such as overeating , eating diss (i .e . binge eating , poor nutrition , and limited exercise , hormonal imbalances , and metabolic diss psychological ones such as stress , psychotropic medication , alcoholism or poor quality or lack of sleep and other related factors such as smoking cessation and alcoholism . However , too much intake of food while being physically inactive is the most common cause of being overweight

On the other hand , being an overweight has its own negative effects . In a study conducted by Anita Stewart and Robert Brook (1983 , they found out that overweight is being associated to other chronic ailments such as heart disease , hypertension , stroke , and cholesterol . All of these diseases are complications concerning the central circulatory system particularly the heart and the veins . An overweight person is more prone in developing such kind of diseases . In addition to this , being overweight could get exposed more to diabetes , sleep apnea , cancer , and osteoarthritis

But aside from these , the researchers also focused on the negative effects of overweight to one 's psychological and social aspect According to them , a person diagnosed being overweight is more prone to frustration , tension anxiety , withdrawal , and depression . Moreover being overweight could also be associated to rigidity , immaturity , and suspiciousness

Clearly , being overweight is not a good scenario to see . It should important that we are aware of the possible causes of being an overweight . This includes overeating...