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Obesity & It’s Causes

Obesity is one of the biggest health problems we are facing in the world today. Usually a result of genetics and behavior factors. From genetics, we mean the family history and Genes give the body instructions for responding to changes in its environment. Studies have identified variants in several genes that may contribute to obesity by increasing hunger and food intake. In addition, from behavior, we focus on the dietary patterns, physical activity, and usage of certain medications.

Here some important factors leading to weight gain and obesity.

Genetics:

plays a key role in contributing to obesity. Rare single gene defects are the cause of obesity in childhood, which results in extreme hunger episodes. According to scientists, a combination of certain genes, family history, and behavior is important in triggering obesity.

Lack of physical activity:

is another major reason for obesity. Most of the young lot these days tend to be lazy since the advent of technology. Children between the ages of 8 and 18 years spend 7.5 hours each day engaging in entertainment media: TV, computers, cell phones, movies, and video games, and about 4.5 of these hours are devoted to watching TV. They spend most of their day in front of the television or a video game limiting their physical movements. There are very few recreational parks left so that one may go outside and play. Even 20 minute’s walk every day is sufficient for your muscles movement.

The food choices:

we make are very important for healthy living! Almost 60% of adults consume 1 sugary drink a day. Foods high in sugar, fat, and salt are highly advertised and eaten by people all over the world. It’s an era where children priorities having fast food over any other meal which seems to be fulling but very fattening!

Stress and Emotions:

Also, trigger obesity. Studies also have found that fewer people sleep, the more likely they are to be overweight or obese. Similarly, stress eating also leads to obesity. Some people are more prone to eating while depressed or stressed out due to hormonal imbalances; the stress hormone “cortisol” rises during the stressed moments and can lead towards overeating.

Health Conditions:

include some diseases or hormonal imbalances due to thyroid, diabetes, and PCOS, etc are at risk of developing diabetes. Cushing disease and Hypothyroidism also causes weight gain and obesity. The right choice of medication and timely treatment can make you control this.

The right lifestyle choices and physical activities can make you avoid obesity and excessive weight gain which is a path towards a long and healthy life.

Organic Food:

The growing trends of “fast food” across the globe attracting people especially the youth. These junk foods become the staple food of people around the world. The processed food bears the least food potential in it which doesn’t give much strength. To the human body as lacking nutrient values. Some two to three to four decades ago there not much known. About these artificially produced cereals, meat, chicken, milk, and other products, used in today’s foods of various kinds. The primitive methods of cultivation and live stocking not yielding. Gigantic quantities of grains, vegetables, fruits, chicken, dairy, and meat. But containing rich natural organic nutrient values in them. 

Benfits of Orgnic food:

Mighty food needs of the ever-increasing human population with explosive ratio. Necessitated the modern scientific inventions, and artificial methods to meet these needs. Chemically developed artificial fertilizers, instead of natural bio-organic fertilizers. Gave an extraordinary boost to crops in terms of quantity, but the quality of being natural severely compromised. The multi-time bigger quantities of crops made the growers overwhelmingly, pleased and satisfied as they started earning much more from per-acre. As compared to the earnings before the use of chemical fertilizers.    

Eventually, the illiterate and semi-literate formers did not know the dangers. Risks associated with the use of chemical fertilizers. When these chemical fertilizers boosted the crops they boosted. Unwanted weeds, herbs, pests, insects, and other harmful elements for crops. 

 This mushroom growth of harmful elements necessitated. The creation and use of insecticides, pesticides, herbicides, and other poisonous medicines. These poisonous inputs infected the yield of crops itself. 

 A similar artificial path used in the massive growth of inorganic poultry. live stocks that adulterate these products with poisonous effects. 

More about organic food:

These artificially processed foods, grown by these poisonous inputs. Cause dangerous harm to human health and quality of life. A number of fatal diseases of the present modern age caused by artificial poisonous. Inputs in crops growing, a number of researches revealed. 

Both short-term acute health effects and chronic diseases. Caused by the use of pesticides on crops and artificially developed chemical feed for poultry and livestock. 

Blindness, stinging eyes, dizziness, rashes, nausea, asthma, diarrhea, anxiety, depression, attention deficit, hypertension, and even cancer can be caused by pesticides and other poisonous inputs. 

The widespread use of these artificially grown foods causing severe influences not only on human physical health but also human mental health and reproductive system researches reveal.

These artificial elements putting adverse effects on food quality which eventually badly damages human health. 

The primitive methods of cultivation and use of organic inputs including bio and organic fertilizers, natural seeds, and prevention of crops through manual manners were not producing a yield of quantity in comparison with a hefty amount of production with artificial modern means and use of inorganic inputs. 

But that organically grown and developed food was health-friendly and was not causing to fatal and killing diseases of the present modern age. 

According to a number of researchers, such modern implements and inputs are causing fatal diseases like cancer and many others mentioned earlier.

As the population grows explosively and the use of land is increasing for other purposes. than agriculture these modern methods, artificially developed seeds, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and insecticides became ‘need” of the day. Such measures and artificiality turned as the “necessity” than choice. 

Chemical foods and its effect:

On the other hand, the diseases caused by these chemically grown food crops turned. The medicines used for the cure of these diseases a hefty industry of trillion dollars across the globe.   Now the medicines’ industry is the second largest industry after the “war industry”. Only in 2018 the total health and wellness related industry amounted to 4.5 trillion US dollars. This means 52700 billion Pakistani rupees, in the US only, and trillion of more dollars engaged in the business of healthcare around the world. The most modern and sophisticated instruments, diagnostic machines, equipment, expensive medicines, operations involve trillions of dollars across the globe. To cure the diseases caused by contaminated food, water, and another unhygienic and polluted way of life. 

The trillion dollars industries are financially benefited by the artificially grown food. Pesticides, insecticides, chemical fertilizers, and the fatal diseases sprout in consequence of these artificial and chemical oriented foods.

Live healthily, eat organic food.

Healthy Diet for Your Liver:

We often take our body and its organs for granted by consuming harmful food and drinks that might damage our organs without us knowing for a long time. The liver one of those organs which quite ignored by our people when it comes to health. Do you know that your liver is the powerhouse of your body? It performs more than 500 major functions and involved in 13,000 multiple chemical productions in your body. A healthy diet and routine keep your body healthy and functional. A poor diet will affect all your organs and your overall health and fitness which will gradually lead towards the deterioration of our vital organ, Liver!

Food for a healthy diet:

There are many foods that can be consumed to avoid liver diseases and damages such as Coffee, as it helps in reducing the risk of chronic liver diseases. According to a report, coffee increases the number of antioxidants in the liver. Fiber plays an important role in digestion and by consuming oatmeal; you are actually taking lots of fibers which is good for your overall health and for reducing fat. Green tea has promising effects on the liver! Take one cup of green tea every day to keep your liver and body detoxed. Grapefruits contain such chemicals that protect the liver from being inflamed.  There are some plant foods that are good for your liver as well such as lemons, carrots, broccoli, bananas or watermelon, etc.

More about healthy diet

Stay away from fatty and sugary food items as they can cause inflammation to the liver and can also cause fatty liver diseases. Cut down the amount of salt that you are consuming because it leads to fibrosis. Avoid alcohol as it is the worst enemy of your liver which slowly poisons it, leads to cancer and many other worst liver diseases.
Be smart in choosing the right meal for your body because eventually, we are what we eat! Our bodies will only perform well if all our organs are in good health.