Shredding Stereotypes: The Cool Quest to Conquer Obesity

Strategies for Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

Avan
Health and  Science
2 min readJun 10, 2024

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Hello, Today I want to discuss the growing concern of people being overweight and the problems it causes. Obesity is a complex disease involving having too much body fat. Obesity isn’t just a cosmetic concern. It’s a medical problem that increases the risk of many other diseases and health problems.

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First, let’s talk about what is the issue here:

} Lack of physical activity. …

} Not getting enough good-quality sleep. …

} High amounts of stress. …

} Health conditions. …

} Genetics. …

} Medicines. …

} Your environment

Obesity is hard to cure and we should get some basic knowledge of why :

Once you become obese, your body’s own search for homeostasis makes it harder for you to lose weight long-term. A healthy diet is more effective at helping us manage our body weight than yo-yo dieting once we’ve already become overweight. We know obesity is more common in deprived areas.

Now that we know the most common causes and understand obesity. Let’s talk about 5 ways to help patients with obesity make lifestyle changes

  1. Recognize obesity as a disease. “People often understand or have a general understanding of diabetes. …
  2. Don’t play the shame game. …
  3. Maintain weight with physical activity. …
  4. Don’t rely on BMI as a diagnostic tool. …
  5. Encourage healthy habits for life
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I don’t know much about diet plans so I can only offer some simple advice. I hope that it is of help to you.

The best way to treat obesity is to eat a healthy, reduced-calorie diet and exercise regularly. To do this you should: eat a balanced, calorie-controlled diet as recommended by your GP or weight loss management health professional (such as a dietitian) and join a local weight loss group.

Obesity is not something that people should be ashamed of, it is something that you should be able to cure and always remember every effort you make brings you closer to victory.

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Avan
Health and  Science

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