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Obesity is excess body fat that increases the risk of having health problems.

What do you think about Obesity?

I think obesity is the cause of so many heart related diseases such as stroke and other chronic cardiovascular diseases.
These chronic cardiovascular diseases are the cause of untimely death all over the world.

Obesity causes diabetes which can make a person not to enjoy life the way him or she is supposed to enjoy life.
A person who is obsessed always feels weak and sick. Like I said earlier, do not enjoy life the way they are supposed to enjoy life.
Some people who are obsessed usually feel low esteem because of their body weight, mass, and size, and this could be linked to an obsessed person suffering from depression.

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Can you tell us 3 things that causes obesity?

So many things cause obesity and overweight.
The three main causes of obesity can be:

1. Eating habit
2. Gene
3. Medication

Eating habit: A lot of people eat too much food and fatty food, which increases their weight drastically.
Eating too much fatty food without exercise causes obesity. So it is important to always burn out some calories in our body so as not to be obsessed.

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Gene: It is sad to say that a lot of people inherit obesity from their parents. People whose parents were obsessed have obesity in his or her Gene and this will surely resurface with no time unless they start early in life to fight it.

Medication: Some medications cause obesity. The reason is that some drugs used in treating certain ailments increase the homones level in the body, and this could trigger weight gain and changes in body weight, size, and mass, thereby leading to obesity.

What are the best ways to prevent obesity?

There are many ways of preventing obesity.
Some of such ways are;

1. We need to eat healthy foods. Not eat too much junk food as this builds up a lot of calories in our body, thereby leading to obesity.
   Eating healthy food will help to prevent obesity. Food that contains fibre, fruits, and vegetables is ideal in preventing obesity.
   
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2. Regular exercise will also help to prevent obesity as exercising regularly will help burn some calories in the body there by preventing obesity.

3. Stress reduction will help prevent obesity.
   A lot of people eat too much under stress so as to have energy in dealing with their daily routine.

Conclusion

Obesity can do us more harm than good even if there is obesity in our Gene we can also do something to prevent it as stated in this post.

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