How to overcome overweight and obesity
People tend to create excuses in defence of almost everything they do wrongly in their day to day life. Sometimes, they don’t know, or maybe they don’t want know, they are hampering their own health and well-being by these excuses. Whatsoever may be the reason, they should not compromise with their own and other’s health at least. Being overweight and obese can never be defended until and unless someone has some core medical issues that are not letting them being fit and fine in life.
In current times, their excuses of being not fit and fine are ridiculously weird. Those fatty girls with buckets full of fat on their breasts, waists, hips and all around keep saying, “chubby (heavy) is new sexy”. And those men with full of fats on their bodies think this is sign of their manliness like they try to equalize themselves with wrestling champions. Don’t these people have any idea how they are making themselves expose to various diseases? Indeed, at the first place, they don’t they take health seriously?
Chubby (heavy) is not sexy, but sickness
By making just excuses while compromising with their own health, these men and women are not duping others, but themselves. These humans live a sedentary lifestyle, many of them with lavish amenities. They are never physically active, and neither they want to be. Moreover, they just think they can take it easy and let it be as it is all their life. Or many of them keep postponing their fitness goal to months to years and so on. What they lack is the self-motivation or urge to be healthy.
These people, who keep ignoring their health, must know that overweight and obesity have a large number of side-effects. Though being overweight or obese is not a disease in itself, this may be a cause of a number of other diseases. Many studies have revealed that if you are overweight or obese, you have far more chances of catching many diseases. If not many, these fat people mostly are fighting with at least one or two of such diseases. Many even die from life-threatening illnesses.
How to overcome overweight and obesity
The list of overweight and obesity linked sicknesses is very large. It includes hypertension, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, fatty liver and osteoarthritis. The list is not over as it includes sexual issues, sleep apnea, mental issues, respiratory problems, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia and endometrial, breast, prostate, and colon cancers. Most of the people of the world live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight.
According to World Health Organization, world obesity has tripled since 1975 and doubled up since 1998. Nearly 40 percent of total global adult population i.e. 2 billions are overweight. Roughly 13 percent of adults i.e. 700 millions are obese. Gender wise, 15 percent of females and 11 percent of males are facing obesity. Further, around 40 million children under 5, and 350 million children and adolescents over 5 were overweight or obese in 2020. Obesity causes 5 million annual global deaths though it is preventable.
10 ways to avoid overweight and obesity
- Eat varied, colorful, nutritionally dense foods with more vegetables, fruits and dietary fiber.
- Plan your diet with ‘good’ fat, eat slowly and only when hungry, and avoid binge eating.
- Cut off liquid calories and avoid processed, sugary and fast food items including ‘bad’ fat.
- Encourage yourself for daily physical activities and exercises – aerobics, jogging and yoga.
- Engage in fun and exciting physical activities and passion like sports, swimming or dancing.
- Keep yourself hydrated by consuming enough water, keep reminding yourself about that.
- Get adequate sleep in night, and keep an eye on stress levels, which makes you eat more.
- Check on your weight regularly, and don’t avoid regular medical check-ups or as needed.
- You are not alone, let the family involved in the journey, or take social support in this goal.
- Monitor your child’s eating habits, encourage them eat nutrients, limit their screen time.
