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Obesity and Diabetics Risk

Obesity and Diabetics Risk

Introduction

This purpose of this paper is to help the researchers to identify the obesity diseases factors that are directly linked to occurrence of diabetes. The goal is to discover the extent to which a knowledge gap exists with regard to the link between diabetes and obesity. Obesity and diabetes are becoming serious health problems as its roots are becoming stronger day by day which is affecting people very often and deaths are causing. This paper can be interesting for many research communities to find out the types and risks of diabetes that are emerged from obesity problems.

Discussion

Obesity

Obesity is commonly defined as severely overweight. This verbal definition is complemented by a quantitative specification of the boundaries between underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obesity. The World Health Organization (WHO) and most experts in this field refer to the body mass index (BMI) as a simple indicator relating the weight of an individual to his or her height. BMI is defined as the weight in kilograms (w), divided by the square of the height (h) in meters (kg/m2).

The main cause of overweight and obesity for most people is an energy imbalance: they consume more calories than they expend in physical activity. Changes in daily life are considered by many scholars to play an important role in global increases in the number of people who are overweight and obese. The major factors identified are (1) changes in diet toward foods away from traditional plant-based foods that are high in fiber and micronutrients (such as vitamins and minerals) toward processed foods and animal products that are high in calories, often from sugar and fat; and (2) decreased physical activity due to the changing demands of the workplace, increasing urbanization, and a shift to motorized rather than human-powered transportation (e.g., driving a car or riding a bus rather than walking or riding a bicycle). The pervasiveness of these changes worldwide is one reason that the problem of obesity has remained fairly intractable despite many government and private programs that have attempted to reverse the trend toward increasing obesity.

Diabetics

The three types of diabetes mellitus: type 1, type 2, and gestational are caused by insufficient production of insulin, the hormone that enables glucose (sugar) to be transformed into energy, or by the ineffective use of insulin within the body. Globally, the number of people with diabetes is increasing rapidly due to aging populations and increased rates of obesity and sedentary lifestyles. Lifestyle changes, such as maintaining a healthy body weight and diet, regular exercise, and avoiding smoking are the best ways to reduce the risk of developing the disease.

Although diabetes affects men and women, the disease appears to be more prevalent among men. Diabetes poses unique challenges for women at various stages in her life, including pregnancy-which can affect both the mother and her child-and during menopause. Among diabetic women, coronary heart disease is now the biggest cause of death, and a woman's chance of surviving ...