Obesity And Cardiovacular Disease

Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease

Talking about global health issues, one of the important could be about obesity and cardiovascular diseases. This issue is one of the dangers issues that peoplein real life live frequently. An article about this topic from “The Encyclopedia of the Heart and Heart Disease, Second Edition.” Says, that obesity is a weight greater of 20 percent over the healthof the ideal weight. It shows that obesity have different kind of diseases for many health conditions such as two different kinds of diabetes and heart disease and other diseases. “Includingatherosclerosis, hypertension (high blood pressure), coronary artery disease (CAD), cardiomyopathy (enlargement and weakening of the heart), and heart failure. Many health experts believe obesity now rivalscigarette smoking as the most significant modifiable risk factor for heart disease”(Randal). This explains the different kinds of diseases that can be produced by obesity. And as we see this factorbrings the body a lot of problems in the body, people think that eating a lot is good for their health because they are eating, but they don’t notice that obesity brings a lot of risk factors to theirbody. Now if we are talking about the heart, people also think that obesity just produce or just make their bodies look fat, but people doesn’t know that it can produce high risk in their heart too. Alsoas we noticed that the article says that smoking is a rival of obesity, they both produce almost the same or exactly the same effect in people lives.

“The steady increase in the numbers of obeseAmericans over the past decade alarms health-care providers. Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. adult population is overweight and over a third is obese. Many factors contribute to obesity, though thebottom line is deceptively simple: more calories consumed than expended. Only one in five Americans participates in regular, moderate exercise. Two in five Americans participate in no physical exercise...