Obesity : main causes of obesity

Causes of obesity :-

Obesity has become one of the major health problem. Millions of people are suffering from obesity in the world. The causes of obesity are many.
The modern life style, has made millions to become obese.  The main causes of obesity are as follows.

Genetic or Hereditary causes : Genetic factor causes the obesity in number of peoples. The genetic trait is transferred from parents to offspring, so the parents also contributes obesity to their younger ones.
The obesity is inherited from parents to offspring. The studies have been proved that genetic factor and heredity causes obesity in some people.

Environmental factors : Environmental factors includes internal environment i.e. heredity and external environment includes the life styles, eating habit, easily available fatty foods, less consumption of fruits and vegetables contributes obesity. so environmental factors causes obesity.

Metabolism : Metabolism refers to the digestion of food in the body and it’s utilization. The energy consumed by us, and spent is measured in terms of calories. When we consume excess food, and spend less energy, the excess energy is stored in the form of fat and leads to obesity. If you burn much calories and ingest less food you can loose weight.

Sedentary lifestyle : Now a days the life has become mechanical. For every work we depend on machines. We are using vehicles to move even some meters, using lifts instead of staircase, always sitting, either in office or home. This has lead to obesity as the energy spent is very less.

Lack of exercise : Even we are living with sedentary life style, we are not giving significance to exercises in our busy schedule. This has lead to accumulation of fat in the body and causes obesity.

Eating habits : We have become addicted to junk and spicy foods, which have high tendency to cause obesity. Eating Ice creams, chocolates, snacks always has made not to consume vegetables and fruits and cause obesity. Another demerit of junk food is, they are tasty and we tend to eat more, leading to excess consumption and ultimately Obesity.

Life styles : Modern lifestyles also causes obesity. The luxurious life has contributed obesity to most part of generation.

Stressful life situations also causes obesity. so psychological factors also causes obesity.

Excess eating and less energy expenditure is the main cause of obesity.

Failure of regular habit of eating : The children and most of adults have cultivated an habit of eating always. The excess consumption enhances excess fat accumulation in body, this leads to obesity.

Consumption of fatty foods : Fatty foods have become the staple food
for some group. The foods such as cheese, ghee, chicken, mutton, eggs, and other junk foods are rich in fat. The consumption of this fatty foods causes obesity.