Natural Health & Beauty
Weight loss guide by health and beauty doctor.
What is Obesity

Obesity can be define as presence of excess body fat.
Obesity is proving to be a severe health concern in world
over, and showing its effect on physical and mental health,
treatment of obesity is also a major concern as it involve
enormous time and efforts from patient.
Obesity is defined in terms of body weight relative to height of
an individual. When weight in accordance to height reach
more than 20-30 percent, we can call that person obese.
Officially, obesity is defined as a body weight that exceeds
the 84th percent of the
Body Mass Index (BMI). BMI is a
manifestation of weight in accordance to height that shows a
relationship with human body fat.
Obesity increases in women with age as compared to men,
and is more common in economical weaker section. Obesity
comes in bundle with hypertension, blood cholesterol,
diabetes, kidney failures, cancer in breast and uterus
causing higher morbidity and mortality rate. Beauty saloons
are also showing greater interest in weight reduction
programs.
Obesity was commonly understood to be caused by higher
intake of calories than consumed by an individual. Few have
belief that damage hypothalamus causes obesity. Due to
poor identification of origin, curing obesity is a difficult part of
any
weight loss program, though exercise and diet had
shown remarkable results in studies.