Reasons Why You Should Lose Weight!!!

Obesity is one of the nation's fastest-growing and most troubling health problems.

Obesity is still the second leading cause of death after smoking. Losing weight though commercialized is still to your benefit
if you carry more weight than you should.
Obesity and overweight are term often used interchangeably. However, technically they refer to two different states.
Being overweight technically means excess body mass.
This includes all the body tissues. Obesity on the other hand refers
explicitly to excess body fat e.g. a professional heavy weight body
builder is overweight because of excess muscles but is not obese.
Obesity is what should concern you. Losing weight is no longer an issue you can afford to procrastinate, and probably a good health scare is in order.

Here Are Five Good Reasons For You to lose weight

#1. Diabetes: It is well known that 80 -90% of type-two-diabetes patients are overweight. Diabetes is the third leading cause of death inthe U.S., as well as the leading cause of adult blindness in the world. One of the direct causes of obesity is eating wrong foods. Some of these wrong foods include high glycemic foods. High glycemic foods are energy dense foods that quickly increase the level of blood glucose in your body after been eaten. This results to the body reserving the unnecessarily high glucose/energy into fat. This makes losing weight very difficult.
Releasing a hormone called insulin does this. Type-Two-diabetes occurs because the body cannot produce enough insulin to remove the excess blood glucose and store it as body fat. This will occur after straining insulin production for some time. And that’s how you end up being fat and diabetic.

#2. Cancer: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates between 25% - 33% of cancer world wide are overweight and physical inactivity related. Body fat evidently promotes higher levels of insulin production and excess estoregens, a hormone. Both insulin and estorogens accelerate cell division.
[Probably to create adipose tissue; new fat cells to store fat, in addition to the regular celldivision]
As research has indicated, the faster cells duplicate the more they increase chances of acancerous cell developing. The situation is further complicated as the rapid cell division caused by the excess hormones lead also to rapid cell reproduction of the one cancerous cell, hence cancer starts to develop actively. Inaddition fat cells tend to keep carcinogenic i.e. cancer-causing agents, trapped in the body which increases chances of developing cancer.
Types of cancers you will be at high risk to get include:
*.Breast cancer- affecting the breast possibly in both men and women.
*.Colorectal cancer- affecting colon and rectum.
*.Prostrate cancer- affecting the prostrate gland in men.
*.Endometrial cancer- affecting the uterus.
*.Esophageal cancer- affecting the esophagus.
*.Renal cell cancer, the cancer of the kidney, etc.
#3. Stroke: Obesity is associated with arteriosclerosis, the build up of fatty deposits in the arteries through out your body. This makes them narrow slowing blood flow and among other things increases risk of the blood clotting. Arteries at risk include those supplying blood to the brain. If clotting occurs due to narrowed artery, it blocks blood supply to an area of the brain resultingto stroke. Losing weight reduces this risk.
#4 Respiratory problems: Obesity causes lungs to “become smaller” in size and chest wall become heavier to lift in the process of breathing in. The most common respiratory problem is sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a condition where by an individual stops breathing for some time while asleep.
For the severely obese sleep apnea may get more complicated with hypoventilation. Hypoventilation is accumulation of toxic levels of carbon dioxide (the gas we breathe out) in the blood, due to inadequate breathing. Losing weight would be the only permanent safe and healthy solution to sleep apnea.
#5 Other Diseases: Other diseases which MAY occur as a result of being overweight include:
• Gout
• Coronary heart disease
• Lower back pains
• Osteoarthritis
• Pregnancy disorders such as
*.Neural tube defect,
*.Prenatal mortality,
*.Maternal hypertension,
*.Gestational diabetes etc.
• Impaired immune response
• Liver disease
• Pancreatitis
• Bad body smell
• Depression.
The Journey of a thousand steps starts with a step, You Can Do It!!!