7 big reasons of unwanted weight gain : Obesity

7 big reasons of unwanted weight gain : Obese

Obesity is one of the foremost cause of many unwanted health condition like diabetes, hypertension, stroke, heart attacks, high cholesterol level in blood, certain type of cancer, dementia, etc .

According to the WHO report estimated 2.8 million people dying each year due to obese all over the world.

According to WHO in 2016, there were more than 1.9 billion adults aged 18 years or more were suffering from overweight and from these 350 million adults were obese. All total about 13% of the world's adult population were obese in 2016 in which 11% of men and 15% of women were obese).

Belly fats are defines by fat present around your abdomen, there are two types of belly fat:

Subcutaneous fat- fat present under the skin
Visceral fat- Fat which present around your organs.

*visceral fat are more harmful than subcutaneous fat.

How to get to know that in which category do you stay

Who defines the parameter of being overweight and obese, it can be measure by BMI (Body mass index) - Bodyweight(In kilogram) divided by the square of the height in meters (Kg/m2).

Overweight -equal or more than 25
Obesity- equal or more than 30

Here are 7 big reasons for fat belly

1. Excessive consumption of alcohol

Studies have found link between alcohol and obesity, it can cause weight gain to the male around their stomach than women.

Alcohol can also cause variety of health disease like, liver problem, kidney problem, inflammation.

2. Lack of physical exercise

The one who are living sedentary life are more likely to get obese. if you are living inactive life
and consuming more calories than you burn off, you will surely put on weight, because it is hard to burn more calories for those who are on inactive lifestyle.

3. Genetics

Genetics also plays an important role in obesity. researches have been found that gene can influence
metabolism, behavior and develop risk factor related to obesity.

There are more chance that obese parent's offspring become obese, but it doesn't mean they will remain same, they can get rid of obese.

4. Poor diet

Diet plays an important role in weight gain or weight loss too. junk food, processed food, sugar (cake, candy, soda) etc can cause weight gain because it contains more calories than other. these food can imbalance your metabolism, and can slow down the fat burn process.

Imbalance macros in your diet can also cause weight gain like low protein and high carb-fat diet
can affect your weight.

5. Adverse effect of medication

Some of the medication cause weight gain due to their side effects, like antidepressants, diabetes medication, antipsychotics, they tend to increase your appetite or reduce metabolic rate.

6. Not getting enough sleep

Sleep is very important for your health, well being, not getting enough sleep can trigger unwanted weight gain and also some negative effects on health.

Some studies have been shown that sleeping more than 7 hours per night with a 33% possibility of greater weight loss than who sleep less than 7 hours.