Diabetes
# Obese people have 4 times the risk of getting diabetes than people of normal weight.
# Diabetes is a metabolic disease caused by the lack of insulin.
# The lack of insulin causes sugar to be excreted instead of being turned into calories.
# Insulin transports glucose to the tissue and accelerates the metabolizing of carbohydrates. It also stores glucose as glycogen and plays an important role in fat and protein synthesis.
# In order to gain energy, glucose in the food we eat must be absorbed into the body, enter the blood vessels, and be carried to tissue that needs it. With diabetes, the absorbed glucose stays in the blood vessels and eventually is excreted.
# High Blood Pressure
# Obese people have a higher chance of having high blood pressure than persons of normal weight.
# High blood pressure is defined as blood pressure that is at a continuously higher level than normal blood pressure level.
# Blood is pumped into the main artery by the heart, and then through the arteries spreads throughout the body. The pressure in the arteries is blood pressure.
# Systolic blood pressure is when pressure from the heart is at its greatest. When pressure is at its lowest is diastolic blood pressure.
# This is how the World Health Organization defines blood pressure.
Normal blood pressure: systolic BP- below 140mmHg, diastolic BP- below 90mmHg
High blood pressure warning: systolic BP- below 160mmHg, diastolic BP- below 94mmHg
High blood pressure: systolic BP- above 160mmHg, diastolic BP- above 95mmHg
# To maintain unneeded fat in the body the demand for oxygen goes up. But in order to increase the supply of oxygen the amount of blood circulating must be increased, and to do this the heart must work (beat) more. This is how obesity causes high blood pressure.
# There are more cases of high blood pressure accompanying overweight people than normal weight people but not everyone overweight has high blood pressure.
Arteriosclerosis
# It's (artery) the blood vessel that carries blood pushed out from the heart by its beating throughout the body.
# Arteriosclerosis is the condition in which the artery walls become thick and narrow.
# Artery walls grow thicker, narrower, and less elastic depending on obesity and age. These symptoms begin in people's 20s, and symptoms gradually increase as they enter their 40s.
# Eating a lot of fatty foods, genetics, hyperlipemia, high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes are some of the causes of arteriosclerosis
# Arteriosclerosis can cause cerebrovascular and coronary disorders.
hyperlipemia
# Hyperlipemia is when there's an unusually high amount of fat in the blood.
# Hyperlipemia occurs when fat, like triglyceride and cholesterol, isn't metabolized properly.
# Because there's a lot of cholesterol, hyperlipemia is also known as hypercholesteremia.
# Genetics, obesity, diabetes, stress, thyroid gland dysfunction, liver dysfunction, and pituitary dysfunction are causes of hyperlipemia.
# Obesity has a close relation with fatty tissue. Hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, and hypertriglycedemia are more common in people who have an obese upper body than people with obese lower bodies.
# There is good cholesterol (HDL) and bad cholesterol (LDL). Bad cholesterol (LDL) has a close connection with body weight.
# Hyperlipemia occurs easily in people who are obese because they have trouble metabolizing lipids.
Disease Associated With Obesity
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