How obesity can affect your life

Without a doubt, obesity results in dramatic negative effects on physique, social acceptance, emotions and to top them all, health of the person concerned. A lot of morbidly obese people are more traumatized by their "weighty" problem than they care to admit.

1)Physical image: Nowadays body image is crucial to one's social standings be it in schools or workplaces. People are so influenced by "wafer thin" models that the concept "Thin is beautiful, fat is ugly" has been overemphasized. Many obese people are ashamed or embarrassed of their bulky stature.

2)Social withdrawal: Because obese people are embarrassed of their physique, they tend to withdraw themselves from the social crowd. Who can blame them ? From time to time, we hear reports of "big people" being bullied, teased and even spat on by "small people". They have been called all sorts of names and shunned like lepers especially in public transport (plane for example). It's a fact- society does not treat them well. As an educated society, we should be more understanding and caring towards this group of people. A lot of them are fat, not because they are greedy, not because they don't do exercise but because they have genetic issues or medical problems.

3)Negative emotions: For reason society often does not accept them well, obese people tend to keep to themselves, all the time undergoing hefty stress/depression which can ultimately lead to self-harm. It's not surprising to hear some of them saying they contemplated suicide at some stage of their life. Because of their low self-esteem, they often have not much confidence in their work or play resulting in less satisfactory performance which again leads to depression.

4)Health concerns: We are all aware of the so-called morbidities of obesity- cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes type 2, fatty liver, sleep apnoea, arthritis, infertility and depression. Each year, billions of dollars is spent treating these side effects of obesity

"Prevention is better than cure." To avoid being obese, we have to manage our weight well on a consistent level through healthy diets and regular exercises.For those who are overweight, there are lots of weight loss products and weight loss diets to help you.