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How Can Overweight Affect Your Health?
Obesity is a terrible thing for both body and mind. Obesity forces people to feel tired and uncomfortable, it can wear down joints and put additional stress on other parts of the body. When people are carrying additional weight, it's harder to keep up with friends, play sports, or just walk between classes at school or university. It is also connected with breathing problems such as asthma and sleep apnea and problems with hips and knee joints that may need surgical treatment. There can be more serious effects as well. Obesity in young people can be basis for illnesses that once were thought to be troubles only for adults, such as hypertension, high cholesterol levels, liver illness, and diabetes, a disease in which the body has difficulty converting food to energy, effecting in high blood sugar levels. With years, people who are obese are more likely to suffer from heart disease, congestive heart breakdown, bladder troubles, and, in women, troubles with the reproductive system. Obesity also can lead to stroke, larger risk for certain cancers such as breast or colon cancer, and even fatality. Toting up to other possible evils, people who are obese are more likely to be depressed. That can start a cruel cycle: When people are fat, they may feel sad or even annoyed and eat to make themselves feel well again. Then such people feel worse for eating again. And when someone's feeling unhappy, that person is less likely to go out and do exercises.
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