THE OBESITY AS A DISEASE
Obesity has been positioned as an endemic disease in our country (Mexico) and in most of the developed countries.
It is considered that one of each three individuals suffers of some type of obesity, which has been considered the epidemic of 21st century.
The study of the person will always have to include the three spheres that are the biological, psychological and the social one.
Without a question, in terms of the biological issue, obesity conditions conduce to series of potential health risks that can produce serious diseases or death. As obesity is increased, or in the case, weight reduction is no longer possible, obesity is associated with four of the five main death causes in the world. It is linked, directly and indirectly as the number one global reason of mortality.
Morbid obesity receives its name of excessive overweight that conditions diseases. For this reason, obese people present an increase in the risk of premature death that could diminish or be avoided by weight reduction. Additionally, obesity generates situations that progressively alter the other spheres of the individual as the psychological and the social ones.
Psychologically speaking, changes of conduct can be seen, with a tendency to isolation and a feeling of rejection from the rest of people, in addition to sensations of shame and being different. That is why they tend to focus in food consumption as a satisfaction mechanism.
To acquire its own clothes becomes a challenge and sometimes they stop traveling because the transport seats are not designed for overweight people.
Being sentimentally related becomes difficult by the own insecurity and fear of rejection.
Socially, they sometimes face the lack of employment only by the fact of not being “physically convenient” for the company and they are gradually undergoing a type of discrimination that set them aside of a conventional life.
