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Obesity is because of eating too many calories and not getting enough physical activities to burn those calories. Excess calories are deposited in the body as fat.

Obesity increases the risk of several health problems like high blood pressure, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, heart diseases, stroke, gout, gallstones, colon cancer, sleep apnea and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

High blood pressure:

Blood vessels carry blood from heart to different organs of the body and back to heart. The blood vessels have thick but elastic walls for proper flow of blood. Decrease in elasticity of blood vessel wall increases pressure on blood passing through these vessels. Obesity decreases elasticity of blood vessels causing increase in blood pressure.

Diabetes in obesity:

Insulin is required for entry of carbohydrate into cells from the blood. The carbohydrate in cell is utilized for energy production by the cells. Excess deposition of fat in the body causes insulin resistance, because of which, insulin cannot perform its function and sugar cannot enter into cells and remain in blood. This leads to diabetes or high blood sugar. High sugar in blood leads to complications in various organs like kidney, eyes, blood vessel, and heart.

Atherosclerosis or fatty deposits in blood vessels:

Obesity is associated with increase in levels of bad cholesterol in blood. Increase cholesterol in blood causes atherosclerosis or deposition of cholesterol on the walls of blood vessels. Atherosclerosis reduces the elasticity of blood vessels, narrows blood vessels and decreases blood flow through these vessels. All these changes lead to increased risk of heart disease and stroke.

Heart diseases:

Coronary arteries are the blood vessels that supply blood to heart muscles. Atherosclerosis or fatty deposits in coronary arteries in obesity decreases blood supply to heart muscles. Decreased oxygen supply and blood flow to heart can cause angina (chest pain) and complete blockage of blood flow to heart can cause heart attack.

Stroke or paralysis:

Atherosclerosis in arteries of brain can reduce blood supply to the brain. This decrease in blood flow can result in stroke or paralysis.

Arthritis:

Obesity and overweight increases the load on the joints such as the knee, hip and lower back, which can cause the breakdown of cartilage in the joint. Cartilage is a cushion like structure in a joint required for smooth movement of joints. Breakdown of cartilage in obesity results in joint pain and stiffness and other features of osteoarthritis.

Gout:

A type of arthritis caused by the accumulation of uric acid crystals in joints. Obesity is associated with increased accumulation of these solid crystal-like masses in joints, which causes inflammation and pain.

Sleep apnea:

Overweight and excess fat around neck causes narrowing of airways and leads to sleep apnea. In sleep apnea, person snores heavily and stops breathing for short periods, which results in frequent awakening at night.

Fatty liver disease:

Obesity increases the risk of developing liver disease called fatty liver disease due to accumulation of fat in liver.

Gallbladder disease and gallstones:

Obesity increases cholesterol deposition in gall bladder, which can lead to formation of gallstones.

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A year ago during my daughter’s health control, who actually is seven years old, for pollen allergy suspect, the doctors noticed the beginning of secondary sexual characters as: breast growing, pubic hair and consequently I told the doctors that my child was having by several months heavy sweating too.

The doctors inspecting the problem advised me to monitor the early transformation best known as:“Early puberty”.

After the initial sense of anxiety and confusion, I though to myself: “It’s unbelievable, my little child is becoming already a woman”.

I decided to assure a healthy future to my daughter following with much attention the endocrinologist’s advices as:

• Pelvic Ecography: to monitor the ovaries, uterus and follicles dimension to see if the child is ready for menstruation.

• Left wrist X ray: to control the bone growing since if becomes too soon there is the probability the child’s eight stops with the beginning of menstruation, risking to remain under-average against to her classmates.

• Blood exam: hormonal dosage DEHA-S (sexual hormones. By checking the hormones dosage to value the function sexual glands either female or male), glycemia and diabets.

The early puberty also involves the children from the age of 9 to 14 years old, revealing with following signs:

- developing armpit, pubic and facial hair;

- penis growing and testicular enlargement.

The early puberty for little girls begins between the age of 8 to 13 years old. While for the female eight amount begins with the growing the breast, for male the growing stars at mid premature development.

Psychological consequences.

An important phase and most of all not to under estimate is the “psychological disturbs” which may provoke the early puberty in the child, who faces physical transformations for which still is not ready and causes in her a sense of diversity and isolation against her classmates.

After learning that also my child is in the early puberty phase, a question which worried me was: “How to explain to my little child her sexual transformation? To my baby who still plays with dolls and loves the fairy tales? The answer I achieved to find only in the deep of my heart, creating with her a very confidential and lovely dialogue, explaining her in clear and comprehensive words , what was happening at her body.

We can do a lot to monitor the early puberty following few, but precise rules:

- to control the body weight, avoiding to become obese or overweight;

- to educate the children to a daily physical activity;

- to insert in their hypercaloric diet, meat without xeno-estrogens (giving

hormones to fatten and grow the animals rapidly) as: chicken, beef and

pork’s meat.

These chemical substances are present in:

- DDT (pesticide for agricultural production);

- industrial detersive;

- canned food.

The overexposition of such hormones causes an increase of women cancer to:

- breast, uterus, endometrium and ovaries;

and for men to:

- prostate, testicular and male sterility.

So, to prevent the early puberty:“WATCH OUT TO THE BIOLOGICAL CLOCK”.

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Do you have man boobs? Do you want to get rid of man boobs? If you’re sick of your boobs, you can get rid of them! Ahead there’s a list of exercises that will make sure you lose man boobs. When trying to lose man boobs, it’s necessary to remember that you use a combination of diet and exercise.

Man boobs are a result of built-up excess fat. The human body stores fat on your body in a certain order. Generally, men build up fat on their chest and stomach areas first. So when you are shedding fat so you can lose man boobs, the man breasts are often the last thing to go! Don’t let this discourage you.

The best way to lose fat and get rid of moobs (man boobs) is to do aerobic exercises because they convert your fat into energy at the quickest rate. To get rid of man boobs through aerobic exercise, you can try any of the following:

• Jogging
• Speed-Walking
• Cycling
• Cross-Country Skiing
• Rowing
• Running
• Skipping (With a skipping, not skipping along the street)
• Swimming

Another good way to get rid of fatty boobs is through anaerobic exercise such as weight lifting and other weight training. When beginning your weight training, incline bench presses are the best way to improve the appearance of your man breasts. This is because it increases the muscle mass in your chest and tighten your pecs. Some other beneficial anaerobic exercises include:

• Shoulder press
• Standard bench press
• Lat pull downs
• Decline bench press

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