Post 7: Is obesity a disease?

For me obesity is a disease because it is caused by multiple factors such as psychological and metabolic genetics, and its cure requires a comprehensive medical group, because to cure obesity not only you need to eat less, you need a change of mentality, about obesity. It is a fact that obesity causes other diseases in our body, also reduces our life expectancy and people doesn’t care about these facts and they just go on with their lives without worrying about their condition.

When I was younger my mom was obese and this was due to psychological problems such as anxiety and stress, due to my brother, and also because when she was a little girl her father had a butcher shop.

She always made the effort to lose weight but never succeeded, so she decided to have surgery, because obesity was bringing her other diseases, such as insulin resistance, tachycardia, and her heart was beginning to grow. During the process, she was treated with psychologists and nutritionists, in addition to several medical exams to get to the operation.

Now my mom maintains a healthy weight, the diseases that they had due to obesity the majority cured, and all this was due to the fact that she considered that obesity was a problem for her daily life, besides that everything she had tried for losing weight alone and I do not achieve it, she decided to seek help from professionals in the field.