Consequences of Obesity

by Therese Hobbs
(New Hampshire)

Consequences of obesity

I am a dedicated physical fitness expert and it gives me great satisfaction to see my clients achieve their weight loss goals. Contributing this piece of article on the consequences of obesity to this site can probably help many people out there, who are really trying their best to lose weight, but simply see an end to it without really achieving weight loss.

You see, obesity and achieving weight loss is fast becoming a national problem. Many Americans have to deal with all sorts of chronic diseases, like hypertension and diabetes and most often the root cause of their problems is excessive weight.

Consequences of Obesity - What to be Aware of

The body structure and the internal organs that come along with it can only carry so much pressure. Keeping our internal organs constantly squeezed in by body fats that constrict the arteries and blood vessels, is one of the reasons why organs like the heart, kidneys, liver, and lungs start to fail.

Imagine all of these organs housed in a single body structure that will slowly fill up with masses of body fats, not only floating inside your body but also acting like cushions that smother passageways, veins, and arteries. You cannot expect blood traffic to flow easily through them because they are squeezed tight between fats. Not only that, your blood tends to be less viscose or less fluid, hence the pressure that the heart releases only gets stuck somewhere because blood takes too long to reach their proper destinations. In time, as this condition occurs, you will soon develop the dreaded hypertension, because there are certain pressure points that cause your blood pressure level to rise.

Notice how you tend to breathe with a wheezing sound? Even your airways find it hard to release the air you exhale. Your insulin level will also start to rise because the pancreas automatically detects high sugar levels, and is triggered to work overtime. It is trying hard to enable the cells to absorb all sugar and carbohydrate contents detected in the body. Now even your kidney will start to fail because it has to contend with both high levels of insulin and the very little blood that circulate in the kidney area.

Soon your heart will also show signals of the punishment it gets. All its efforts of pumping out blood meet nothing but resistance and its really straining the arterials walls. It tends to beat faster, as it tries to cope up but also feels weak as valves are slowly feeling the wear and tear of constant pressure battering its walls.

Now let us take your external implements. Which of your body part gets the most punishment for the excessive weight you carry each day? Your legs of course, so by this time those legs of yours should already be as massive as a tree trunk to carry more than 200 pounds everyday. In worst cases, it can be 300 pounds.

One way I motivate some people to keep fit is by giving them the actual experience of carrying several pounds of weight. We go to a grocery and ask them not to push a cart for whatever stuff we have to get. I point to a case of pure butter weighing about 50 pounds each and ask each one of them to carry a load. After that, they can pick any thing they like to add to their load. Naturally, none of them had the energy to go around because the 50-pound butter was already eliciting all sorts of complaints. Strained arms, strained legs, strained backs, and all they want to do is to get over whatever task was to be done. So I told them to just put everything back because we could not continue with the exercises with all the complaints going around.

Once we got back to the center, I explained just what happened. I told them that for a moment they had the actual experience of being overweight. That is how overweight people feel, and then multiply it by the number of days that they are overweight and constantly adding more weight. They move slow and almost too tired even by just walking with their weight; hence, they tend to be sedentary. They want to move around less, without even thinking that it becomes even more detrimental to their health. They pretend to laugh and feel happy so they can justify the amount of food they gorge. In fact, their life is becoming drearier because the clothes that they wear are becoming drab and shapeless.

They attract attention not because they are pleasingly attractive but because people cannot believe that someone can get so big. Then they start feeling hurt when people seem too heartless. They did it to themselves, remember.

I actually feel for these people. Maybe if I had been able to talk to them sooner, they would not have grown so big. I could have given them the motivation to stay fit. That is why I am taking advantage of this site and this free page, to reach out to people, that for their sake and well-being, stay fit and healthy.

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