What are the dangers of obesity

What are the dangers of obesity? Generally speaking, there are the following main points:

First, it causes heavy posture, inconvenient activities, and psychological obstacles;

Second, the cost of food, clothing, housing and transportation increases; the quality of life is reduced, the labor force is affected, and it is vulnerable to trauma.

Because obese people are slow to move and respond, they are also prone to various injuries and car accidents, resulting in fractures or sprain.

Third, it brings various fatal diseases and even causes early death.

Among them, the most harmful factor of obesity is that it can lead to a series of serious complications, such as hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, coronary heart disease, malignant tumors, etc. These diseases are the main killers of human health.

In depth, the dangers of obesity include:

1. Causes dyslipidemia

Obese people, especially abdominal obese people, are more likely than ordinary people to have abnormal increases in hypercholesterolemia, hypercholesterolemia, and very low-density lipoprotein, while high-density lipoprotein decreases. The reasons why obese people are prone to hyperlipidemia are not very clear. The possible reasons are as follows: First, they eat more fat, second, they store more fat in the body, third, hyperinsulinemia can increase blood lipids, and fourth, there is a problem with the elimination of blood lipids.

2. Increase cerebrovascular disease

Obese people are prone to high blood pressure, dyslipidemia and diabetes, while obese people with high blood pressure, dyslipidemia and diabetes are more prone to brain problems. First of all, such people are prone to cerebral atherosclerosis. Their cerebral blood vessels are hard and fragile and can easily rupture under the action of high blood pressure, causing dangerous cerebral hemorrhage and even endangering lives. Secondly, the tissue fibrinolytic activation inhibitory factor in the blood of obese people is also higher than that of ordinary people. This factor makes it difficult to dissolve blood clots once formed, so obese people are prone to cerebral thrombosis, which is cerebral infarction.

3. Increase the risk of developing high blood pressure

Obesity is closely related to hypertension. Among obese people aged 40-50, the risk of developing hypertension is 50% higher than that of non-obese people. A moderately obese person is more than five times more likely to develop high blood pressure than a normal weight person and more than twice as likely to a mildly obese person.

4. Increase heart load

It has been found that the incidence of angina pectoris and sudden death in obese people is fourfold higher. This shows that obesity will definitely increase the burden on the heart and cause heart damage. The normal human heart is like a water pump, constantly contracting and relaxing, maintaining the circulation of blood. Because obese people store too much fat in their blood, the total amount of blood will increase a lot accordingly, and the contraction force of their hearts will increase accordingly. When the heart is overwhelmed, it can no longer pump blood effectively, causing blood to accumulate in the cardiovascular system, and in severe cases, even obvious heart failure occurs.

5. fatty liver

About half of obese people suffer from fatty liver disease. The liver is the place where triglycerides are synthesized, but there is not much extra space in the liver to store them. The balance between triglyceride synthesis and transport is unbalanced in obese people. Obese people consume more fatty acids, so the liver also synthesizes more triglycerides. Large amounts of triglycerides accumulate in the liver. As a result, fatty liver forms.

6. Increase the risk of diabetes

Obesity is one of the important risk factors for developing diabetes. Among patients with type 2 diabetes, 80% are obese. Moreover, the longer obesity occurs, the greater the risk of developing diabetes.

7. Causes bone and joint disease

There are three main types of osteoarthropathy that may be caused by obesity: osteoarthritis, diabetic osteoarthropathy and gouty osteoarthropathy. Among them, the most common and harmful is osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis caused by obesity mainly affects the knee joint, and secondly affects the hip joint and finger joints.

8. Obese people are at risk of cancer

According to epidemiological surveys, obese women are more likely to develop endometrial cancer and postmenopausal breast cancer, while obese men are more likely to develop prostate cancer; and as long as they are obese, both men and women are more likely to develop colon and rectal cancer. The more severe the obesity, the higher the prevalence of the above cancers.