Let's note at the outset that fat is not a monolith - it consists of about 65% fat, 30% water and 5% protein.
Obesity is excessive, resulting in complications of disease, hyperplasia
Obesity is a morbid excess of adipose tissue that disturbs the function and structure of many organs. So it is a disease that if the body does not feel its effects temporarily - in the long run it threatens the development of many organ and general complications. Consequently, it increases the risk of shortening the average life expectancy.
How much fat you need to have in the body so that the doctor can recognize the obesity disease?
In the diagnosis of obesity, one should always combine the excess of adipose tissue with the so-called normatively correct (due) body weight. It is assumed that the conventional limit at which the obesity begins, is exceeding 120% of the normal body weight. In addition to obesity, the concept of "overweight" is used in practice, and it is recognized that this class includes people with an actual body weight between 100 and 120% of normal body weight.
What body fat tolerates and what size means obesity?
The amount of fat tolerated for health should not exceed 15% of body weight in adult men and 20% of women. These values can be variable as they depend on, height, age, sex, environmental conditions, etc. It can be stated that obesity is the case when the percentage of fat allowed in body weight increased by 50% or more, regardless of the weight of other components of the body. Obesity is also found when fat gain is greater than 50% of the value due and at the same time there is a loss of muscle mass or water, so that the overall body weight is close to due.
Obesity criterion in men and women
1. We are talking about man's obesity when fat mass is greater than 22% of body mass
2. We are talking about women's obesity when fat mass is greater than 30% of the woman's body weight.
Causes and symptoms of obesity.
The proportions of fat to total body weight depend on many factors and determinants. The most important are: tradition and personal culture, lack of knowledge about the principles of healthy nutrition, civilization stress, genetic determinants, disturbances in the secretion and action of certain hormones on the tissues and diseases, and finally undesirable effects of drugs.
You can distinguish the following forms of obesity due to the type of cause:
1. Family and culturally conditioned obesity - resulted from the culinary tradition and lack of knowledge about the principles of healthy nutrition, aversion to sports, sedentary work, etc.
2. Obesity resulting from the lack of "coping" with stress. This is called psychoreactive obesity, often neurotic.
3. Obesity directly genetically conditioned
4. hypothalamic obesity: brain tumors, brain inflammation, brain injuries, surgery in the hypothalamus.
5. Obesity as an endocrinopathic symptom: Cushing's disease, insuline and functional hyperinsulinism syndrome, castration syndrome, hypogonadism (also menopause in women and men), alleged hypoparathyroidism, growth hormone deficiency, Steina-Levent syndrome Teams: Laurence-Monna -Body, hyperostosis frontalis interna, Alström, Prader-Willi, obesity coupled with sex chromosomes, others.
6. Compulsive obesity - resulted from the use of: phenothiazine derivatives, corticosteroids, estrogen derivatives, progestagen derivatives, sedatives, cyproheptadine, overdose of insulin in chronic insulin therapy
7.Obesity from impossibility of physical exertion - forced by illness forcing to prolong bedtime, physical disability, aging.
ed. Edward Ozga-Michalski, MA
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