Obesity is defined as an excessively high amount of body fat or adipose tissue in relation to lean body mass. The amount of body fat (or adiposity) includes concern for both the distribution of fat throughout the body and the size of the adipose tissue deposits. Body fat distribution can be estimated by skinfold measures, waist-to-hip circumference ratios, or techniques such as ultrasound, computed tomography, or magnetic resonance imaging.
The difference between Overweight and Obese
An adult is considered "overweight" when he/she is are above a healthy weight, which varies according to a person's height. The standard used by researchers to define a person's weight according to their height is "body mass index" (BMI). An individual is considered overweight when the BMI is between 25 and 29.9, while an adult with a BMI of 30 or more is considered obese. For example, for a 5'4" woman, this means that she is 30 or more pounds over her healthy weight.
Problems related to obesity
If you are overweight, you are more likely to develop health problems; such as
heart disease
stroke
diabetes
cancer (such as colon cancer, endometrial cancer, and postmenopausal breast cancer)
gallbladder disease
sleep apnea (interrupted breathing during sleep)
osteoarthritis (wearing away of the joints)
The more overweight you are, the more likely you are to have health problems. Weight loss and regular exercise can help improve the harmful effects of being overweight. Studies show if you are overweight or obese, losing 5%-10% of your body weight can improve your health.
The Ayurvedic View
The involved dosa is kapha. Kapha is an Ayurvedic humor, which is dense, heavy, firm, stable, slow, thick, sticky, wet, clear and cold in nature. Kapha governs all structure and lubrication in the mind and body. It controls weight and formation of all the seven tissues - nutritive fluids, blood, fat, muscles, bones, marrow and reproductive tissues. Kapha (in balanced state) gives nourishment to these tissues through various micro channels.
Aggravated kapha leads to production of toxins in the body. These toxins are heavy and dense in nature. These heavy and dense toxins accumulate in weaker channels of body and cause blockage of these channels. In the case of an obese person, toxins accumulate in medovahi channels (fat channels), thus the production is fat tissue (meda dhatu) is more, which causes increase of weight.
Ayurvedic line of treatment would be:
To pacify kapha dosa.
To cleanse the medovahi channels, so that weight should be reduced.
Play the video below to know more about the Ayurvedic prespective on Endocrinal and Metabolic Disorders.
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