The effects of obesity on physical health are well documented. The Stanford Hospital (2010) reports obesity causes up to 300,000 premature deaths a year in the United States alone.
Obesity health effects range from backaches and joint pain to life-threatening conditions. The following is a list of health conditions attributed to obesity. This list is by no means exhaustive; the effects of obesity on physical health are, unfortunately, many and varied.Obesity side effects include:
- Angina (chest pain)
- Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries)
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Heart attack
- High blood pressure
- Joint pain
- Metabolic syndrome
- Mobility impairment
- Osteoarthritis
- Stroke.
Initial Natural Treatment
Medicines for obesity work in different ways. Depending on the medicine, they make you feel full sooner, limit your body's ability to absorb fat, or control binge eating.
Before you begin treatment, decide if you are ready to make the lifestyle changes needed to lose weight. Losing weight and maintaining weight loss can be hard. And it may be hard to find the motivation if you have lost and regained weight several times. Think about successes that you had before and how you were able to achieve them.
