Health Risks Of Obesity - July 30th, 2009

Despite what some popular writers may tell you, you cannot hide away in your shell and say everybody is making up negative press about obesity and it’s not a problem. If you have actually reached the point in your life where obesity is not only a social inconvenience but otherwise, you know this of course. But if you haven’t, there is a reality call that obviously needs to be made. Even some with serious medical issues interestingly enough do not make a lifestyle change. We expect to see a middle aged man having a sudden heart attack at 50 or 60. But what happens when they are having heart attacks at 30 or 40 because of the earlier and growing obesity epidemic as early as toddler years and childhood in general? Parents are actually gorging their children with food, because they think they look cute when they’re fat. Yes, babies look cute with little fat rolls when they are not excessive. When they become excessive, fat is not that cute. When they’re small children, they shouldn’t be fat, they should be able to naturally control portions unless we are insisting they do otherwise. And as you would find with early smoking, early obesity can be more damaging. With even later obesity, you could suffer shortness of breath, sleep apnea, heartburn, low back pain, leg pain, knee pain, and joint pain, depression, diabetes, kidney disease, heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and otherwise. We don’t eat balanced diets, we yo yo diet, and it’s having its effects in general.