Saturday, September 25, 2010

Research Question 3

3. How does obesity affect people's health?

          Hey guys! Do you all know that obesity bring a lot of negative effects to us? One of the side effects is on health.Due to the obesity,obese people always face problems in their health.

          Obese men and women having a higher risk in getting breast cancer.Obesity is strongly related with the cancer of esophagus.Obese women is more risky than women with lower BMI in getting endometrial cancer as the obesity affects the blood lipid level.

          Chronic diseases such as heart disease,high blood pressure,stroke,kidney disease and particularly diabetes are major threats to obese people. Gallstones are common disease among the obese people.Extra kilogrammes on the skeleton resulted in these people face problems with their feet and bach.Moreover, obese people are most likely to get winded of oxygen.

          Other than that,obese people have a lower immunity to harmful organism like virus and bacteria. They easily get infected by liver disease.Obesity is also a major risk of heart attack. Obesity increases both the risk of high blood pressure and blood cholesterol levels. Excess weight tends to reduce levels of HDL cholesterol which prevents heart diseases.

          These are some of the negative effects of obesity and i will share more information with you all next time.Since obesity are obviously affect our life,we should prevent ourselves from becoming an obese person.

by Yin Wen.

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