Type 2 Diabetes
The type 2 diabetes and obesity are directly related to the point that mQore than 85 percent of the people diagnosed with it also are overweight. The type 2 diabetes starts when the body does not respond properly to insulin, a hormone released by the pancreas.

Heart Disease
The obesity is an important risk factor as regards to heart disease and heart attack, taking at least 20 percent or more of incidence in the overweight people.

Incontinence of stress
The excess weight, especially in the abdominal area, puts additional pressure on the bladder, motivating this discomfort that represents the incontinence or leakage of urine.

Gallstones
The obese people are more likely to develop gallstones that those who are in a healthy weight, for the women obesity is a risk factor very strong for the development of gallstones.

Hypothyroidism
Women over 50 years that are obese have a higher standard of possibilities to develop hypothyroidism, an endocrine disorder that can lead to more than weight gain and other problems.

In addition to these conditions mentioned above, there are other conditions linked to obesity, such as gout and osteoarthritis.

The middle-aged women who are overweight have nearly 80% less likely to maintain good health compared with normal weight women. This was the conclusion of recent research. A group of American researchers studied more than 17,000 nurses with an average age of 50. When the study began in 1976 all women were healthy. The researchers tracked their weight until 2000.

The results indicated that for every point increase in body mass index of these women had a 12% lower chance to get healthy until age 70 (compared with thin women). During the study not only evaluated the possibility of contracting chronic diseases. It also took into account the ability to perform everyday tasks; such is the case of making purchases, vacuuming or climbing stairs.

Experts believe that those women with a BMI between 19-25 are in a healthy state. Otherwise, those with an index of 25 to 30 are considered overweight women, those exceeding 30 points, obese.

A British study published a while back showed that those with a BMI between 30 and 35 die an average rate of three years earlier, those who are obese, a rate surpassing 40 points, a decade earlier. Consider that while currently the life expectancy tends to rise as a function of obesity risk factor.