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Recent studies show that the mortality rate in Covid-19 is 4.7 times higher in overweight people, even if that person is very young. Around the world, especially in Southeast Asia, the prevalence of obesity is increasing rapidly. Vietnam is leading the way in the rate of overweight and obese people in recent years. This is information that Bloomberg News quoted data from research firm Fitch Solutions. Obesity is increasingly becoming a medical concern because of the many dangerous diseases it causes.
Causes of obesity
According to the US CDC definition, overweight person is someone with a body mass index (BMI) higher than 25. And obese people, with a BMI over 30.
The main cause of overweight and obesity is an imbalance. between energy intake and energy expenditure. Nutrients are provided in too much but consumed too little, leading to fat accumulation.
Research shows that obesity rates in women tend to be higher than in men.
Obese women are often found in the following subjects:
People who have a habit of using fast food, high-energy foods, eating less vegetables, drinking a lot of soft drinks; Office workers, less travel, sedentary; Postpartum women are also prone to obesity and overweight; Middle-aged women; Women born into families with a tradition of obesity and overweight;
The harmful effects of obesity
Reduces the body's immune system, because obesity always makes the body in a state of chronic inflammation; Osteoarthritis: People who are overweight and obese are prone to osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, constant pain due to body weight putting pressure on bones and joints. Knee and spine joints are injured the earliest. Overweight and obese people are prone to gout. Cardiovascular disease: Obesity is often accompanied by high cholesterol, causing fibrosis of the blood vessels, leading to high blood pressure, stroke, and myocardial infarction. In obese people, the heart has to work harder to pump blood to feed the body and in the long run, it overloads the heart, so that in obese people, it is easy to get cardiovascular diseases Diabetes: Obesity is closely related with type 2 diabetes due to insulin resistance Ease of gastrointestinal diseases: obesity causes excess fat to stick to the intestinal loops causing stagnation of stool, constipation. The stagnation of feces and toxic wastes generated in the metabolism can lead to colon cancer. Meanwhile, excess fat accumulates in the liver causing fatty liver disease, if not treated promptly, it can lead to cirrhosis... Fatty metabolism disorder produces gallstones. Ease of respiratory disease: Obesity puts excess fat on the muscles, making the diaphragm and trachea of obese people often limited, making breathing shallower. Obese people often have breathing disturbances, snoring, sleep apnea. Obesity causes memory loss: Overweight and obese children often have lower IQs than children of normal weight. Obese adults have a higher risk of Alzheimer's than normal people. Endocrine disorders: Obese women often have menstrual disorders, polycystic ovaries, difficulty getting pregnant, and high risk of infertility. If the pregnancy is at risk of having a difficult delivery, the baby is prone to metabolic disorders. Obese men are often physiologically weak, at risk of infertility. Low self-esteem, prone to stress: Obese people often have fear in front of crowds, which gradually leads to negative thinking, anxiety leads to stress, prolonged depression. Increased risk of cancer: Some studies show an association between obesity and cancers such as esophageal, rectal, breast, uterine, hepatobiliary, and prostate cancers. . Thus, obesity is the leading cause of many dangerous diseases for the body. Statistics of the US CDC show that 40% of the US population is obese, 67-70% of Americans are overweight. That is 1 in 3 Americans is obese. This is one of the reasons why the death rate from Covid-19 in the US is the highest in the world.
Therefore, before putting yourself at risk of becoming an obese woman, reduce your high-fat diet. Eat a lot of green vegetables, increase fiber, drink lots of water, and have a regular and regular exercise regimen to have a body index that is always in a safe range.
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