What is Obesity?
Obesity means apparent overweight or fat layer is too thick. Obesity is caused by excessive accumulation of body fat, especially triglycerides. Too much food intake or changes in metabolism cause excessive accumulation of body fat, excessive growth of body weight and cause changes of body pathology and physiological.
According to causes of obesity, obesity can be categoried as follows:
Simple Obesity
1. Endogenous obesity
Obesity from gene or familial inheritance. The person has slow metabolic rate and has many big fat cells.
2. Acquired obesity
Obesity is caused by eating excessive more food. Body is full of fat. Fat cells arg big but few.
Morbid Oberity
3. Cushing’s syndrome
4. Pancreatic obesity
5. Decreased sexual function
6. Pituitary Obesity
8. Drug-induced Obesity
Clinical symptoms
Most fat of man is distributed in neck, trunk of a body and abdomen, less in arms and legs. But women’s fat is mainly distributed in abdomen, hips, chest and four limbs.
Birth weight more than 3.5 kg, in particular, mother with diabetes should be considered as a sign of obesity. Over-nutrition during child growth and development may cause childhood obesity.
