The health issues from being overweight are often ignored until it is too late. What I mean by too late is when you contract an illness through being overweight, that often cannot be cured but only controlled, and even then your life can be severely constricted in many ways.

The levels of obesity and being overweight are at record levels. The fact is that now for the first time in human history, there are more overweight people , than there are starving people on our planet. This is a situation that is growing and there doesn’t seem to be a way to stop people from putting on weight.

Consider some of the health issues from being overweight:

Heart problems – the bigger you get the harder your heart has to work to keep you alive. This is a situation that cannot be sustained. At some point your heart will be damaged by disease or even stop because you are overweight.

High blood pressure – being overweight will result in your arteries to collect cholesterol, which will stick to your artery walls. This results in less blood flow through your body, causing high blood pressure and strokes.

Diabetes – your body produces insulin in a controlled way. When you consume excessive sugar through food and drink, your body’s ability to control insulin is badly disrupted. All this sugar, does not only make you overweight, it causes problems for your body to control energy.

Arthritis – the human skeleton is constructed to carry only so much weight, depending on our individual frames. Being overweight puts a strain on our bones. The longer we stay overweight, the more pressure we put on our skeleton. This leads to our bones wearing away and growing weaker.

Cancer – statistics show that people who are overweight or suffer from obesity have a much higher chance of contracting certain cancers. Being overweight puts enormous pressure on the way our bodies function, and this situation can only continue for a certain time because all things have breaking point.

Mental health – there are numerous psychological problems that can occur from being overweight, Low self esteem, lack of confidence, paranoia, poor self image, and depression. Ask anyone who is overweight how they really feel about themselves and many people will tell you about the above problems.

Respiratory problems – carrying excessive amounts of weight will often lead to breathing problems such as asthma. Your body’s ability to utilize oxygen is seriously hampered, decreasing your energy levels and often leading to breathing problems.

As you can see, the health issues from being overweight are not things to be taken lightly. If you are overweight and at the present do not suffer from any of the above diseases, don’t for one minute think that things are fine.

You may not know it but your body is already under tremendous pressure, it is a ticking time bomb and it is not question of if it explodes, it is a question of when.

One of the main problems of being overweight is how we only live for today. As long as things seem ok now, we don’t think about life a year or two down the line. Our reaction commonly is “I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it”. Unfortunately when it comes to weight issues, that bridge can often become too difficult to cross when you arrive at it.

Do not bury your head in the sand or think that you may get lucky and avoid some of the terrible diseases that are associated with being overweight. There are so many people lying in hospital beds, housebound, or bedridden who thought the same thing at one point. If some of these people could be sent back in time, you can guarantee that they would have done everything in their power to lose weight and live a healthier life. Unfortunately this cannot happen and all that they have to cling to is regret and whatever remains of their life span

You do have a choice to either avoid the health issues from being overweight, or just keep things the way they are. Believe me when I tell you that the second option will at some point become something that you will come to greatly regret. If you are overweight or suffering from obesity you have some serious thinking to do.

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