Obesity is a state of human body where the excessive and unnecessary fats hinder the normal function of the body organs. It is a serious health condition that if unattended may lead to death. According to the statistics the numbers of obese people are increasing worldwide. Obesity is the root cause of many health problems like heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, high blood sugar, etc. It is an important fact that obesity has been introduced only a few year ago but today 7 out of 10 people die because of obesity related problems.

Dangers of obesity have increased the number of premature deaths. Heart disease, high blood pressure or hypertension, diabetes, failure of digestive organs, and even cancer are serious health conditions being related to obesity. Heart disease and heart failure are the most common health condition related to obesity. Nine out of ten obese people are diagnosed with coronary and chronic heart disease. When unnecessary fats blocked the arteries, the heart will have trouble circulating blood to other parts of the body. Obesity cause the thickening of heart’s left ventricle wall. Being an obese individual with heart disease can make your blood pressure go up. Obesity increases the blood volume and cardiac output in arterial resistance.

Obesity is often associated with some kinds of cancer. It is notable that obese women are more likely to grow these kinds of cancer. Obese women are more likely to grow cancers like cancer in the cervix, uterus, ovary, gall bladder, colon and breast. So, obesity is not just a disease, if unnoticed it can be a malignant for an individual.

But the prevention of obesity is not so much difficult. Obesity can be prevented by maintaining simple rules in life. It is always in our hand to minimize the risk of those health hazards brought by obesity. Therefore, to be able to minimize the risk of those health conditions from happening, we need to lessen and minimize the factors contributing to obesity itself. If we start about how to minimize or dispose the root cause, all the health conditions associated with it will follow. It will be a very good way to start as soon as possible so that you can prevent the situation from getting worst. Since you already know the dangers, it should be easy to start.

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