What Are The Dangers Of Obesity?

According to the American Obesity Association, 200,000 deaths every year have obesity as one of the causes and for more than 100,000 deaths obesity is the main reason. So it is clear that obesity has become a national epidemic in the past few years. One of the main reasons for this problem is that the US environment encourages sedentary lifestyle when compared to any other country.The individuals have a huge list of dangers attached to obesity.

Increased Economical Crisis

• Obesity is not only an individual health problem, but it has became a national epidemic and a serious economical concern.
• United States government is spending huge amount of money on educating its citizens about the effects of obesity. The government is organizing workshops, seminars, detailed guides and media commercials for educating.
• Medical insurance payments are almost getting doubled every year, one of the major reasons for this is obesity.
• As a further step to put pressure on obese people and unhealthy food eaters, some of the state governments are trying to implement more taxes on high fat food, so I assume, it can be called as obesity tax or tax to become fat.

Increased health concerns

• There are numerous health concerns related to obesity. There are some serious diseases caused due to obesity and some diseases that get increased because of obesity.
• For example obesity causes most of the cardiovascular diseases and increases the risk of type 2 diabetes and some types of cancers.
• There are also many mental problems related to obesity like stress, tension and depression

Threat to the Immune System:

Generally, cells in our body multiply. But fat cells are unique in one aspect. They grow in size instead of increasing in number. The size increases as these cells accumulate large number of fat molecules within them. Only when the number of fat cells fall very low, these cells multiply.The presence of excess fatty acid in the blood initiates this process.

According to a latest research carried out by Australian scientists, excess fat in the body can pose threat to the immune system. This possible explains also why, Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes are related. Immune system is the technical name given to the natural protection system of the body. When the presence of fat increases, the inherent balance between immune system cells gets disturbed. As a result, the cells responsible for protection of our body turn hostile and cause destruction. The study also found that even moderate decrease in weight can boost the immune system by restoring the balance between different types of immune system cells.