What Are The Symptoms Of Obesity

Obesity is a disease that refers to as a major increase in body fat.

The most easiest and widely accepted method to determine whether a person is obese or not is by calculating the Body Mass Index(BMI).

Once the accumulation of fat starts in the body, it gets very hard to remove them. Soon this accumulation of fats turns a person into obese.

It can lead to various health related issues and if not treated on time, it can also lead to life threatening circumstances.

Some of the common disease associated with obesity are cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, diabetics, lose of vision and many more.

Given below are some of the most common symptoms of obesity:

Large body frame

Due to accumulation of fat, the body frame becomes large. The deposition of body fat becomes visible in all the body parts and an obese person look more plumb than a regular fat person.

Difficulty in doing day to day work

The increase of body mass, leads to increase in body weight, thus putting extra weights on the bones than they are designed to. Due to this increased body weight and mass an obese person finds it difficult to do their daily activities.

Breathlessness

Breathlessness is another common symptoms of obesity as an obese person often finds it difficult to breath. Apart from this an obese person gets breathless even if they do minor physical activity.

Breast region adiposity or deposition of fat cells in breast region in boys

Often due to the deposit of fat cells in the breast region of males, it results into sagging breasts. This is often visible in boys with obesity.

Big belly due to accumulation of fat

The prime symptoms of obesity is big belly. Due to the accumulation of fat in the stomach region, a big belly appears.

This is the most common symptom of obesity. Apart from the rest of the body part, stomach is the part which is worst affected by obesity

Deposition of fat in upper arms and thighs

Fat gets deposited in various body parts. The prime locations for deposition of fat are belly, upper arms and thighs.

If an obese person with high body fat goes for liposuction (a medical process related to suction-assisted fat removal), then the extra skin mass of the person will be visible once the fat is removed.

This happens because the skin of that person stretches along with the deposition of the fat.