Treatment of overweight and obesity

More than a billion people on the planet suffer from obesity and overweight. Among the adults in the United States, every fifth citizen of this country, Great Britain and North America, every third person in Germany, every second citizen has extra pounds. Worries mainly with obesity among children: in the UK, 20% of adolescents and children have overweight, 27% in Spain, 36% in Italy, 31% in Greece. In Russia, about 50% of women and about 30% of men are overweight.

The most common cause of excess kilograms is inappropriate intake of calories for their waste. This is binge eating, a significant decrease in physical activity. Accumulation of excess weight contributes predisposition - "feeding" in childhood causes an increase in the number of cells( adipocytes) that synthesize fat.

Endocrine system diseases( thyroid disease, hyperinsulinism, deterioration of the reproductive system, adrenal diseases, etc.) also play an important role, and the intake of certain medications( eg, dexamethasone, prednisolone).

According to Canadian researchers, mental work contributes significantly to the occurrence of obesity, not just for the reason that sitting at the table does not need the expenditure of physical energy. The problem is that when reading documents or working on the computer, our brain needs a lot of glucose, for this reason, a person who prefers mental work, after working everyday, feels a serious starvation. As a result, we consume much more food than the body is able to use. It is for this reason that our "information age" is accompanied by such a serious spread of obesity.

Treatment of obesity must begin with the strengthening of willpower.

According to the experts, strengthening the will is based on regular daily coercion of oneself to perform the necessary actions that you personally least are desirable and pleasant.

Of course, the easiest to achieve success are those who start small, gradually increasing their program complexity and resorting to advice with the doctor. The main prerequisite for the prevention and therapy of excess weight can be considered the normalization of body weight. Try to understand and accept the most important thing for yourself - the technique for achieving this goal has only two levers - a mode of movement and a diet!

Only in this way you will be able to achieve the desired result. The motto of many proposed miracle tools is "You do not have to do anything, you just lie down and lose weight".And no matter how pleasant it is, it will not lead to success. It does not happen. Arguments of this point of view are simple - take a look at foreign music and movie stars. With huge opportunities( both material and technical), they do not rely on miraculous means to help lose weight during sleep, and up to the seventh sweat do hours in gyms and watch how they feed.

All other procedures( physiotherapy, massage, medical therapy) help to achieve the maximum result only in combination with the right physical load and diet.

To date, with obesity, medicinal products are used, with the help of which it is possible to achieve a decrease in appetite, an increase in energy expenditure, and the release of excess fluid in the body. Receiving these funds must be done under the supervision of a doctor. You do not need to take such medications yourself, even when they help your best friend. They are not able to suit you, and you will not only not be able to solve the problem, but it can also happen that you will harm the body.

Complex treatment of excess weight of and obesity is based on understanding of a person as a complex organism, in which everything is connected, therefore, in order to obtain a stable effect of treatment, it is necessary to change the state of the organism in general. To do this, clinics that investigate the treatment of overweight often develop comprehensive detection and therapy programs.

First the patient comes to the endocrinologist for a full examination of his endocrine system and diagnosis of obesity, then to a psychologist, a nutritionist to diagnose predisposing psychological causes, then goes in case of need to a therapist / cardiologist for examination of his cardiovascular system, a urologist for the diagnosis of pathology of other systemsAnd organs. The patient must meet with the fitness trainer to determine the physical capabilities of the patient and other factors that will help to formulate an integrated therapy program. Such specialists do not need to wait and look in separate profile centers.

After a visit to the doctor, you must pass all the tests to determine the concentration of lentin in the blood serum( the hormone responsible for obesity), to learn the level of sex hormones, to learn food intolerance, to be examined instrumentally( for example, ultrasound systems and organs).

The most rapid analysis is the detection of blood sugar levels in capillaries. It is conducted using the current testing systems - the result will be obtained by you in a couple of minutes.

As a result of a full-fledged examination, each individual develops a complex individual algorithm for the therapy of excess weight, which takes into account the sex, age and level of obesity, and revealed changes in the body.

The program of complex therapy of obesity , most often, includes two stages - the stage of weight reduction( from 3 to 6 months) and the stage of stabilization of body weight( about six months).These stages are important, because the activities that are conducted with the patient at a particular stage have a difference. For example, the effect of changing the diet is more pronounced at the very first stage and almost invisible to the second, and the effect of exercise can be seen in later periods. The goals of the stages are also different - first you need to achieve a persistent drop in weight, and then reinforce the result - do not gain extra kilograms again.