What Causes Obesity? Obisity Factors

Lifestyle and risk factors that contribute to obesity. Symptoms of obesity is diagnosed when your body mass index is 30 higher.

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Your body mass index is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by your height and meter squared.

What Causes Obesity?

Obesity is a multifactorial disease. The accumulation of excess body fat which 'may' have a negative effect on one's health.

The most basic function of bodily fat is self-storage of food reserves. In prehistoric times, natural selection favoured genotypes that could endure harsh conditions by stocking the most fat.

With chronic malnutrition being the norm for most of human history, genetics evolved to favour fat storage.

Factors that may effect obesity:

1. Unhealthy Diet

A diet that's high in calories, lacking in fruits and vegetables, full of fast food and laden with high-calories beverages and oversized portions contribute to weight gain.

2. Inactivity

With a sedentary lifestyle, you can easily take in more calories every day than you burn through exercise and routine daily activities.

Having medical problems, such as arthritis, can lead to decreased activity, which contributes to weight gain. If you're not very active, you don't burn as many calories.

3. Genetics

Your genes may affect the amount of body fat you store, and where that is fat distributed.

Genetics may also play a role in how efficiently your body converts food into energy and how your body burns calories during exercise.

4. Age

Obesity can occur at any age, even in young children. As you age, hormonal changes and less active lifestyle increase your risk of obesity.

In addition, the amount of muscle in your body tends to decrease with age. This lower muscle mass leads to a decrease in metabolism.

These change also reduce calorie needs and can make it harder to keep off excess weight.

If you don't consciously control what you eat and become more physically active as you age, you'll likely gain weight.

5. Environmental

More food is consumed when eating in a company than alone.

6. Medical Conditions

In some people, obesity can be traced to a medical cause, such as Prader-Willi syndrome and causing's a syndrome.

Medical problems, such as arthritis, also can lead to decreased activity, which may result in weight gain.

For good health's sake run jump and lose weight!.

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