Sayantan Majumder

    Symptoms and Prevention of OBESITY in MEN       Obesity is a leading preventable cause of death . Due to the fast turning track of our lifestyle obesity has made quiet a place for itself in the population. Although women are more prone to weight gain due to various factors, men are not lagging behind ! Obesity has a different outlook in both the sexes.           According to WHO in 2008, around 10% of the male population in the world were obese. Their first sign of obesity is “potting of the belly or pot belly ”. Fat deposition is mostly in the lower and middle abdomen and sedentary lifestyle is the foremost reason for it. Long hours of desk work, especially on computers, high intake of non-nutritious food, lesser physical activities leads to development of more diseases like Diabetes Type II, cardiovascular insufficiency, gastritis, muscle spasm, joint stiffness, mental stress, which further contributes to ob...

Bio-mechanical relation of normal body weight, obesity and pain Pain It is an uncomfortable feeling or sense (perception) which indicates that something is wrong in the body. Obesity    It is a symptom of poor nutrition. Obesity is a state in which there is generalized accumulation of excess fat in the body leading to a body weight of more than 20% of required weight. Obese v/s Normal  Obesity has become one of the greatest problems of this world today. Since 1980 15% of the population were`obese; by the year 2000 that number jumped to 27% i.e.; 77 million clinically obese ! According to World Health Organization ( WHO ) report, at least 17% of male and 15% of female in India is obese. Those numbers have increased 10% in just past 4 years and still growing at beyond epidemic rate. 61% people of U.S is overweight and that number, too has doubled since 1980. Now, how you come to know whether you are an Obese or not ? The scienti...