Causes of Obesity

 

A person becomes obese when consuming too much food and not engaging in enough physical activity. If you wish to have less of a chance of gaining extra body fat, try monitoring your intake of carbohydrates in food such as sugar-laden beverages and sweet desserts. Despite eating more than enough calories throughout the day, if you don't exercise regularly to burn it off, then chances are the energy will still be stored around the midriff region in a layer of subcutaneous fat impacting one's waistline or on the thighs and buttocks.

Calories

 

Energy is measured in calories, meaning the number of calories in food equals its energy level. For instance, a typical active man requires around 2,500 calories daily, and a typical active woman needs around 2,000 calories.

 

The amount of calories a person consumes over time is essential to understanding their weight. The more calories you consume—whether from nutrition or empty-calorie, sugar-rich drinks and snacks—the more weight you'll gain. And your weight will decrease if you eat fewer calories than your body needs.

 

Eating a high-calorie meal like a large takeaway hamburger, fries, and a milkshake can total 1,500 calories in one sitting. This is one meal alone. Yet another concern is that most people who consume food do not use their body's physical exertion to counteract it, and many of the calories they take in end up as excess body fat.

Poor Diet

The single biggest cause of obesity is a poor diet. If you're eating excess calories, you will gain weight. The more refined your food and unhealthy it is, the higher its calorie count is likely. Over time, if you don't cut back on calories and take in only healthy foods, your diet will become imbalanced, and you will begin to gain weight.

 

It takes time for someone to become obese. Slowly, over time, it develops as a result of poor food choices and lifestyle decisions, such as:

 

● Eating High-Fat, High-Sugar Processed Food And Fast Food.

● Drink too much alcohol – drinking is often closely tied to being overweight, as there are a lot of calories in alcohol.

● Eating out A Lot – you might feel also compelled to order appetizers or desserts while eating out, and they might have a higher fat and sugar content.

● Consuming more than your body needs –  eating more when other people around you are eating large portions could also indicate overeating.

● Excessive consumption of sugary beverages – such as fruit juice and soft drinks.

● Comfort eating – you may eat to boost your self-esteem if you are feeling low or depressed.

 

 

There is a tendency to develop unhealthy eating habits in families. Parents may instil poor eating habits in their children at an early age and continue them into adulthood.

 

 

Obesity is often related to a lack of physical activity. Many people have jobs where they sit at a desk for a large part of the day. Besides walking or biking, cars are their only form of transportation.

 

People resort to viewing TV, going online, or playing computer games to de-stress.

 

If you're not physically active, you don't expend the energy given to you by the food you eat, and the body stores the extra energy 

as fat.

 

Adults should exercise for at least 150 minutes a week, as recommended by the Department of Health and Social Care. This doesn't need to be all in one go but can be done in portions over the week. You could, for example, exercise for thirty minutes a day, five days a week.

 

Weight loss may require more exercise if you are overweight. The best course of action may be to start slowly and gradually increase the amount of activity you do every week.

 

 

Your genes can have a significant impact on your body mass. Everyone is born with a specific DNA blueprint, and some people are naturally more predisposed to weight gain than others; if you were lucky enough to get inherited genes that make it easy for you to maintain a healthy weight, congrats! But if you weren't so fortunate, don't be discouraged—you can work with what you've got and still be in good shape.

 

Most people can lose weight, even if they suffer from rare genetic disorders that cause obesity.

 

If you inherit a significant appetite from your parents, losing weight may be more difficult, but it's still possible. While some genetic traits inherited from your parents, such as a large appetite, may make it more difficult to lose weight, that certainly does not make it impossible.

 

Environmental factors, like poor eating habits learned during childhood, often play a more significant role in obesity than genetic factors. In many cases, obesity has to do with environmental factors such as childhood eating habits.

 

 

There have been cases when underlying medical conditions have contributed to weight gain. These include:

 

● Low-functioning thyroid gland (hypothyroidism) - where your thyroid gland produces hormones in lesser quantities

● Cushing's syndrome – a disorder which produces high levels of hormones due to a deficit of adrenaline or cortisone

 

Despite the prevalence of these conditions, which generally get in the way of weight loss, if they are properly diagnosed and treated, they will probably be less of a barrier.

 

Medicines like corticosteroids, drugs used to treat epilepsy and diabetes, and those used to treat mental illness – like antidepressants and medication for schizophrenia – can lead to weight gain.