Contents:
- Medical Video: Weighing the Facts of Obesity
- Research: obesity is an infectious disease
- How can obesity be transmitted?
- How do you not get infected with fat?
Medical Video: Weighing the Facts of Obesity
Do you believe that obesity has become an 'infectious disease'? If you do not believe, try to pay attention to the environment around you. Have you ever seen a fat child, so do parents, siblings, and siblings? Yes, the statement that obesity is an infectious disease is indeed proven. This is one proof. Want another proof? See the following explanation.
Research: obesity is an infectious disease
Without realizing it, the population of obese people is increasing every year. Although everyone knows that obesity can be the root of various health problems, but still more and more fat people.
Fat people can transmit obesity, even in the family or in social life. Do not believe? This has been proven in several studies. As in a study published in the journal The New England Journal of Medicine, which found that obesity occurs due to association. This research has shown how intercourse can cause more fat people.
While the study reported in the American Journal of Sociology, states that obesity is also contagious in the family. This time it's not due to genetics, but the habit that makes obesity hereditary, spreads from one generation to another.
How can obesity be transmitted?
Actually, infectious diseases are only caused by bacterial and viral infections. Unlike infectious diseases which are transmitted by air, water, or physical contact with the sufferer. You don't have to stay away from obese people, but the problem here is the lifestyle and habits that you shouldn't emulate.
Yes, obesity is called an infectious disease because nowadays people are very easy to get fat, weight gain, and the worst is they don't care too much about it.
Adopting bad habits from the surrounding environment, such as friends and family is a means of transmitting obesity. Look, how often do you approve or approve your friend's invitation to hang out while snacking at a place to eat, even though you've eaten big before? Or is your family used to eating in front of the TV? And you are not used to eating vegetables and fruit regularly because of such family habits?
If all the answers are yes, then indeed you are the target of further transmission. If you don't change the habit too and always follow the bad things from the environment around you, then weigh in a few days or weeks later. Your weight is definitely increasing and if you calculate your body mass index, you are included in the category of overweight.
How do you not get infected with fat?
If you really do not want to contract the condition and do not want to take the risk of getting various chronic diseases that occur due to obesity, you must stay away from these bad habits. Some of the main points of a healthy lifestyle that you must live are:
- Eating nutritious foods and as needed. Do not ignore regular portions and hours of eating, these two things can actually help you avoid obesity.
- Increase your fiber intake from vegetables and fruits.
- Regular exercise. This is an absolute thing you must do to maintain an ideal body weight.
- Get enough rest and avoid bad habits like staying up late every night
- Avoid consuming alcohol and smoking.
- Be consistent with what is done. Yes, it's really difficult to maintain weight if it's not based on strong intentions. Therefore, you should be able to 'resist temptation' from the outside and stay focused on what has become your goal.
If you are accustomed to living a healthy lifestyle, then you will increasingly avoid transmission of obesity. In fact, you can also spread your healthy lifestyle in the family environment and around. But indeed you have to change your own pattern and lifestyle first, then you can invite other people to follow you.
