#obesity risk factors

[talesandfluff]

I feel like so much of the healthy at every size mindset of "losing weight is strictly impossible and nobody can do it so I'm never gonna try" is a sister mindset to tumblr's anti recovery mindset of "I'm mentally ill and that's how I'm always gonna be and all my lashing out and unhealthy coping is justified because I'm mentally ill", they're the same thing and yet people don't recognize the first one cause they're so terrified of being labeled as body negative or "diet culture" advocates

[longlegsnamjoon420]

I fucking can’t stand the fat shaming in the medical community lol. I’m studying for the nclex and this question is like “which client has the highest risk of cardiovascular disease” and I chose the 43 year old male with high cholesterol and a family history. Cuz that’s the real world answer. But no. According to the Nclex it’s a 60 year old obese woman. Obesity isn’t the number one factor for CAD??????

[amandragora]

I had a thought I shared with my mom but now I kind of want to make a post about it too.

I wonder if weight gain with PCOS is less about ‘your body is failing you’ and more about ‘your body is compensating for the hormone imbalance’.  

Like PCOS comes with elevated levels of androgens, which is A Problem. But fat produces estrogen, so more fat would equal more estrogen production, which could be the body’s attempt at stabilizing the hormone imbalance. 

Like.....If we strayed from the ‘fat is unacceptable and bad’ mindset I wonder what we’d find, given the fact that fat is part of the endocrine system. 

[informaticsrn-blog]

What is Obesity?

Obesity is defined as excessive fat accumulation which puts an individual at risk for chronic illnesses. A person with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater is considered obese. Physicians use BMI to assess if a person is at an appropriate weight for their age, sex, and height. Additionally, the ratio of waist-to-hip size (WHR) determines the amount and distribution of fat on the body, which also displays how healthy a person pertains to be.

How does obesity occur?

Obesity happens when too many calories are consumed and not enough energy is used. When this occurs, the body stores the extra calories as fat. After a while when this pattern continues to happen it leads to excess weight, and therefore, obesity.

The diet an individual intake is extremely crucial, foods that are high in fats and sugars increase the risk of weight gain. For example: fast, fried, processed, high in carbohydrates, alcoholic and sweetened beverages.

Another factor that leads to obesity is leading a sedentary lifestyle. Many people have an office job and do not get the opportunity to get any exercise done. The less a person moves, the fewer calories they burn. Physical activity is a crucial factor in maintaining and improving the quality of life, needless to say, it simply gives you energy.

Sleep. Not getting enough sleep can lead to hormonal changes that increase the appetite. Meaning a risk factor for obesity.

Some medications cause weight gain. Atypical antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, hypoglycemic medications, steroids, and antidepressants to name a few.

Genetics also play a role, affecting the amount of body fat you store and where that fat is distributed. Additionally, it also determines how efficiently your body converts food into energy, and how your body burns calories during exercise. Genetic predisposition makes it harder to maintain a healthy weight. Obesity also tends to run in families, therefore, your risk of being obese is increased if one or both of your parents are obese.

Medical problems such as Prader-Willi syndrome and Cushing’s syndrome can cause obesity.

Many times, social and economic factors contribute to obesity. It can be difficult to exercise if you do not have a safe environment to do so. Likewise, not being able to afford healthy foods and not having the knowledge to prepare nutritious meals plays a role as well. The people you surround yourself with can have an influence on your weight, for example, you have a high chance of becoming obese if your family and friends are too.

Quitting smoking is correlated to gaining weight. Still, quitting smoking has more benefits to your health than continuing smoking.

A women’s weight increases during pregnancy as she is now eating for two. After the baby is born, some women may have a hard time loosing weight, thus, contributing to the development of obesity.

Age! Obesity can occur at any age, as early as in children. Hormonal ages are bound to happen as you get older and live a less active lifestyle, putting one at risk for obesity. Therefore, it is super important to continuously and consciously control what you eat and be physically active.

Complications caused by obesity:

High cholesterol

Type 2 Diabetes

High blood pressure

Metabolic syndrome

Stroke

Cancer

Breathing disorders

Gallbladder disease

Gynecological problems

Erectile dysfunction

Osteoarthritis

Quality of life is affected:

Depression

Disability

Sexual problems

Shame and guilt

Social isolation

Lower work achievement

How to prevent obesity:

Exercise regularly! Get 150 to 300 minutes of moderate-intensity activity a week to prevent weight gain. For example: fast walking and swimming

Get a healthy eating plan! Avoid foods high in saturated fats and carbohydrates. Limit sweets and alcohol. Focus should be on nutrient-dense foods: fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.

Know yourself, and avoid the foods that trigger that out-of-control eating. Keeping a journal and write down: what you eat, how much you eat, when you eat, how hungry you are, and your mood. This helps to notice a pattern in behavior and allow you to be in control of your eating habits.

Weight yourself weekly! Monitoring your weight, the same day every week will allow you to track your progress and keep you in check.

Be consistent! Stick to your healthy weight plan and make it a part of life routine. It is always alright to treat yourself, but keep striving during the week, on the weekends, during vacations, and even on the holidays!

Lastly, be patient with yourself! Change does not happen overnight. Know that there is no magic pill that drops all the weight in a few days. Trust the process, you will feel so much more accomplished that you did so.

- Hanna H.

Brazier, Y. (2018, November 2). Obesity: What is it and what causes it? Retrieved from https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323551.php

Obesity. (2015, June 10). Retrieved from https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/obesity/symptoms-causes/syc-20375742

Obesity and overweight. (2018, February 16). Retrieved from https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight

Strategies to Prevent Obesity | Overweight & Obesity | CDC. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/strategies/index.html

[mylucky137276]

Here's why Mediterranean diet is good for pregnant woman

Business Standard: According to a recent study, pregnant women with higher intake of the Mediterranean diet have 32 per cent lower risk of having children with an accelerated growth pattern, as compared to offspring of women that did not follow such diet.

The Mediterranean diet is characterised by a high content of fruits, vegetables, olive oil, legumes and nuts. This healthy diet pattern has earlier been associated with lower obesity and cardiometabolic risk in adults. This study, conducted at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, aimed at evaluating the association between adherence to a Mediterranean diet during pregnancy and growth patterns and cardiometabolic risk in early infancy.

The findings of the study are published in the Journal of Pediatrics.

It was performed with data of over 2,700 pregnant women, who filled in a questionnaire on dietary intake in the first and third trimester of pregnancy. In addition, the diet, weight and height of their offspring were followed-up from birth to age four years. Other tests such as blood analysis and blood pressure were also performed.

"Mothers with lower adherence to the Mediterranean diet were younger, consumed more calories, and had higher probability of smoking and a lower education and social level, as compared to those women who did follow the diet," said Sílvia Fernandez, researcher and first author of the study. BS

[surinderbhalla]

What are the causes of Kidney stones?

What are the causes of Kidney stones?

Kidney stones are hard deposits- that form inside your kidney. It is a common and ancient problem. Even they were found in Egyptian mummies. They are also called renal calculi, urolithiasis, or nephrolithiasis (lithiasis meaning- the formation of stony concentrations). Among the many causes of kidney stones- diet, excess body weight, some medical conditions, certain supplements, and medications…

[tezlivenews]

मोटे लोगों को चपेट में ले सकता है कोरोना ओमिक्रोन वायरस, तुरंत घटाएं अपना वजन

मोटे लोगों को चपेट में ले सकता है कोरोना ओमिक्रोन वायरस, तुरंत घटाएं अपना वजन

Obese People At Risk In Omicron: कोरोना का नया वैरिएंट ओमिक्रोन पूरे देश में तेजी से फैल रहा है. अब तक लाखों लोग इसकी चपेट में आ चुके हैं. कोरोना का खतरा ऐसे लोगों को सबसे ज्यादा है जो पहले से किसी न किसी बीमारी से ग्रसित हैं. ऐसे लोगों की इम्यूनिटी काफी कमजोर हो जाती है. वहीं जो लोग मोटापे के शिकार हैं, उनको भी कोरोना का खतरा बढ़ जाता है. डॉक्टर्स का कहना है कि कोविड संक्रमित मरीज अगर मोटापा से…

[baetriots]

I can’t stop thinking about a post I saw that said Doctors should stop ‘fat shaming’ their patients

[yeshealthplease]

Obesity a big risk factor for severe COVID-19, study confirms

Obesity a big risk factor for severe COVID-19, study confirms

(HealthDay)—Yet another study confirms what doctors have long known: Being obese greatly raises the odds that if you contract COVID-19, your case could be a severe one. The study, from researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, supports calls for obese Americans to move to the head of the line for protective vaccines. “These findings highlight clinical and public health…

[imagespsychogie]

Eight factors in early life are associated with an increased risk of obesity in childhood. https://ift.tt/3neRhZv

[mischiefmanifold]

Stop spreading the misinformation that type 2 diabetes is caused only by eating too much sugar or by being obese!

Type 2 diabetes is primarily genetic (more so than type 1!), but there are multiple risk factors including age, weight, race, gender, and diet/lifestyle (source one) (source two).

The heritability of type 2 diabetes is estimated to be between 40-70% according to a twin study published in May of 2020 (source).

Type 2 diabetes is also linked to insulin resistance, which is genetic.

[nutrition4beauty]

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[turtlesandfrogs]

Some excerpts:

Zooplankton are microscopic animals that float in the world’s oceans and lakes, and for food they rely on algae, which are essentially tiny plants. Scientists found that they could make algae grow faster by shining more light onto them—increasing the food supply for the zooplankton, which should have flourished. But it didn’t work out that way. When the researchers shined more light on the algae, the algae grew faster, and the tiny animals had lots and lots to eat—but at a certain point they started struggling to survive. This was a paradox. More food should lead to more growth. How could more algae be a problem?

Loladze was technically in the math department, but he loved biology and couldn’t stop thinking about this. The biologists had an idea of what was going on: The increased light was making the algae grow faster, but they ended up containing fewer of the nutrients the zooplankton needed to thrive. By speeding up their growth, the researchers had essentially turned the algae into junk food. The zooplankton had plenty to eat, but their food was less nutritious, and so they were starving...

In the outside world, the problem isn’t that plants are suddenly getting more light: It’s that for years, they’ve been getting more carbon dioxide. Plants rely on both light and carbon dioxide to grow. If shining more light results in faster-growing, less nutritious algae—junk-food algae whose ratio of sugar to nutrients was out of whack—then it seemed logical to assume that ramping up carbon dioxide might do the same. And it could also be playing out in plants all over the planet. What might that mean for the plants that people eat?

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Rising CO2 revs up photosynthesis, the process that helps plants transform sunlight to food. This makes plants grow, but it also leads them to pack in more carbohydrates like glucose at the expense of other nutrients that we depend on, like protein, iron and zinc.

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These experiments and others like them have shown scientists that plants change in important ways when they’re grown at elevated CO2 levels. Within the category of plants known as “C3”―which includes approximately 95 percent of plant species on earth, including ones we eat like wheat, rice, barley and potatoes―elevated CO2 has been shown to drive down important minerals like calcium, potassium, zinc and iron. The data we have, which look at how plants would respond to the kind of CO2 concentrations we may see in our lifetimes, show these important minerals drop by 8 percent, on average. The same conditions have been shown to drive down the protein content of C3 crops, in some cases significantly, with wheat and rice dropping 6 percent and 8 percent, respectively.

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Earlier this summer, a group of researchers published the first studies attempting to estimate what these shifts could mean for the global population. Plants are a crucial source of protein for people in the developing world, and by 2050, they estimate, 150 million people could be put at risk of protein deficiency, particularly in countries like India and Bangladesh. Researchers found a loss of zinc, which is particularly essential for maternal and infant health, could put 138 million people at risk. They also estimated that more than 1 billion mothers and 354 million children live in countries where dietary iron is projected to drop significantly, which could exacerbate the already widespread public health problem of anemia.

There aren’t any projections for the United States, where we for the most part enjoy a diverse diet with no shortage of protein, but some researchers look at the growing proportion of sugars in plants and hypothesize that a systemic shift in plants could further contribute to our already alarming rates of obesity and cardiovascular disease.

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Ziska devised an experiment that eliminated the complicating factor of plant breeding: He decided to look at bee food.

Goldenrod, a wildflower many consider a weed, is extremely important to bees. It flowers late in the season, and its pollen provides an important source of protein for bees as they head into the harshness of winter. Since goldenrod is wild and humans haven’t bred it into new strains, it hasn’t changed over time as much as, say, corn or wheat. And the Smithsonian Institution also happens to have hundreds of samples of goldenrod, dating back to 1842, in its massive historical archive—which gave Ziska and his colleagues a chance to figure out how one plant has changed over time.

They found that the protein content of goldenrod pollen has declined by a third since the industrial revolution—and the change closely tracks with the rise in CO2. Scientists have been trying to figure out why bee populations around the world have been in decline, which threatens many crops that rely on bees for pollination. Ziska’s paper suggested that a decline in protein prior to winter could be an additional factor making it hard for bees to survive other stressors.