Question

Why do people gain weight when they don't intend to gain weight?

What's the difference between overweight and obese?

What kinds of health risks are associated with overweight/obesity?

What kinds of diets do people try to then lose this weight?

Are these diets generally successful?

What kind of effects on peoples' eating habits can obsessive dieting have?...physically...mentally? Describe.

Answer 1

1.people try to lose weight by dieting and its more likely that most of them quit dieting in the middle ,then repeat the cycle again .They are more prone to put on weight than those who dont diet.As restrictive diets lead to binge eating when we return to our normal diets.It is advisable to follow a strict dietary regimine rather than dieting.

2.Obesity is an abnormal growth of adipose tissue due to an enlargement of fat cell size or an increase in fat cell number or both.Overweight is usually due to obesity but can arise from other causes such as abnormal muscle development or fluid retention.

3.Obesity is a positive risk factor in the development of hypertension,diabetes,gall bladder disease,coronary artery disease and certain types of cancer.Obese persons are prone to increased risk for surgery.Obesity lowers life expectancy

4 The proportion of energy-dense foods such as simple carbohydrates and fats should be reduced.The fibre content in the diet should be increased through the consumption of common unrefined foods,adequate levels of essential nutrients in the low energy diets should be ensured and reducing diets should be as close as possible to existing nutritional patterns.

5 no,Unfortunately ,most attempts to reduce weight in obese persons by dietary advice remain unsucessful.

6. Both mentally and emotionally both have its own disadvsntage.

7.Obsessive Compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by obsessive ,disrupted thoughts and accompanying compulsive behaviors.OCD focus on good eating habits.People who are having OCD also have co-occuring eating disorder.Eating healthily and losing weight and the advice surrounding it is an obsession.Physically ,it can sometimes result in people lacking in essential nutrients to be found in forbidden food groups.The body then craves for these nutrients which result in diet-breaking binges.Mentally it result in the toxic idea that food can be the enemy.Everybody suffers due to this situation,especially those involved in the food industry who are continually fending of accusatuion that they are promoting unhealthy dietary habits when infact the problem is largely psychological.