Nutrition and Health
I often come to this quiet corner of the beach: a rest, go in. And every time I meet here two girls. I first saw them when they sat back to me, and I thought that middle-aged, respectable (and to be precise – very overweight) woman came to rest on family trouble in the shade by the lake. But they looked – and found that they hardly more than twenty. Yes, once again proved the validity of the Russian proverb: “to put on weight – mean age.” Every half hour or two of my neighbors were getting he brought food, and refreshment. As a physician, I knew that it was not so much a habit of eating frequently and heavily, as evidenced by the increasing need for food in obese people. They have the nutrients the blood very quickly deposited in the so-called depot, where they can accumulate fat and carbohydrates needed in case of famine. As the depletion of blood enters the information in the food center, located in the brain, which is excited, and the man wants to eat again. There is a so-called false hunger, and now the light is removed the next portion of products. Overall, as a rule, eat more and more thin, it is difficult enough. Often, a physiological need for food in obese people is transformed into pleasure, is a favorite habit.
Sometimes this habit is brought up from childhood. Loving parents always want the child to recover, and stuffed him, threatening and pleading. Full child to the same smaller moves, becomes lazy, and this reinforces the degree of obesity. Such children grow up to swell the ranks of obese people. It creates the vicious circle: first there is a genetic predisposition to be overweight, then hyperalimentation, obesity and low physical activity lead to obesity. You are ashamed to go for a run, jump (yes this is a bit hard to do), and appetite, oddly enough, all the increases.
In this case, increases the likelihood of various diseases such as atherosclerosis – a disease of the arteries. It is characterized by infiltration into the arterial wall, fatty substances (mainly cholesterol) that promotes the development of vascular disease. Arteries are sealed and gradually lose their ability to grow, provide the necessary increased blood flow during muscular work. Comes oxygen starvation of tissues, appear in pain. This mainly affected the heart, breaks his activities. Now intense physical exertion may be dangerous. In a subsequent atherosclerosis may be complicated diseases such as, for example, coronary heart disease (CHD), myocardial infarction, angina, etc.
Is there a connection between physical activity and atherosclerosis? What is it? The question scientists are interested in, and that’s what it turned out: in the blood of people leading a sedentary lifestyle, is circulating a large amount of cholesterol, therefore, there is a favorable background for the development of atherosclerosis.
Many scientific studies show the correlation between the level of blood cholesterol and coronary heart disease. It is also proved that the risk of developing heart disease increases as the rise of cholesterol in the blood, whereas with a decrease in its reverse phenomenon can be observed.
In the presence of excess weight is deposited in the subcutaneous fat (usually in the abdomen and thighs), and retroperitoneal fat surrounds the intestines, accumulates near the kidneys and liver tissue in the mediastinum, near the heart bags. He is interfering with internal organs that are particularly troubling, the heart and lungs. Shortness of breath and heart failure – constant companions of obesity, which gives us quite a few other troubles. We are forced to perform hard work, carrying a useless weight, and, of course, quickly tired.
Somnolence, reduced resistance to disease. Obesity increases the risk of many diseases, and available disease is much more complicated.