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Obesity Reviews
Obesity is a disease that causes severe psychological problems in the person suffering by what is important accompany a treatment with specialist
The stereotypes that show at the social level affect the image that people have of themselves, it is common for those who suffer from obesity begin to isolated, because the person feels ashamed when out on the street, frequenting other people, eat ahead of the other or simply show.
Along with this social isolation come the sadness and the few want to carry out activities. What is worrying about this situation is that it is also often develop a great unit toward people with which it coexists.
In the most acute cases, the patient obese not leaves his house, cannot perform practically any activity without help and suffers from serious health problems linked to their overweight.
The obese does not have a normal relationship with the food and as its depressive state becomes more acute, so do their bad habits. The person eats by anxiety, to calm the discomfort or pleasure. With the food “calm” their negative emotions and anxiety.
Reverse the situation is not simple. The patient needs to be reassured that their state can change and begin to think in a better life, but many times the obese has already lost faith in the treatments to thin, due to the many failures that has had.
The task of the psychologist will help to change and see the real options that have at its disposal to change your life.
Obesity and Overweight
The obesity and overweight is defined as an abnormal accumulation or excessive fat that can be harmful to health.
The body mass index (BMI) —weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters (kg/m2), is a simple indicator of the relationship between the weight and height which is frequently used to identify the overweight and obesity in adults, both individually and population.
The BMI is the extent population more useful in overweight and obesity, because the way to calculate does not vary depending on the sex or age in the adult population. However, must be regarded as a guide rough, it may not correspond to the same level of fat in different individuals.
The Organization of the World Health Organization (WHO) defines overweight as a BMI equals or exceeds 25, and obesity as a BMI equal or greater than 30. These thresholds serve as reference for the individual assessments, but there is evidence that the risk of chronic diseases in the population increases progressively from a BMI of 21.
The new patterns of children’s growth submitted by the WHO in April 2006 include tables of BMI for infants and children up to 5 years. However, the measurement of overweight and obesity in children 5 to 14 years is difficult because there is no standard definition of child obesity that applies throughout the world. WHO is currently working on an international reference of the growth of the children of school age and loons adolescents. Read the rest of this entry »