Obesity and overwight : Treatments and drugs

Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. A crude population measure of obesity is the body mass index (BMI), a person’s weight (in kilograms) divided by the square of his or her height (in metres). A person with a BMI of 30 or more is generally considered obese. A person with a BMI equal to or more than 25 is considered overweight.
Obesity and overwight

Overweight and obesity are major risk factors for a number of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Once considered a problem only in high income countries, overweight and obesity are now dramatically on the rise in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in urban settings.
Obesity and overwight

1.The best way to treat obesity?

Effective in the treatment of obesity such as weight loss, increased physical activity. The basic principles of weight control has always been applied:

- Eat a healthy diet with less energy your body burns energy.
- Increase physical activity
- Combining proper nutrition with regular physical activity
- Determination of a will before a long-term challenge "long-term"


2. Diet to treat obesity

Cause malabsorption energy in the intestine

Eat more fiber: a reduction of energy absorption in the intestine is not much.
- Use wrap to reduce the absorption of calories, this measure is less accepted.
- Using an inhibitor of hydrolysis of starch to reduce the absorption of calories: do not cause weight loss.
Eat fat substitutes such as sucrose polyester will cause unrest because they can not absorb the fat-soluble vitamins


The above measures are likely to cause malabsorption syndrome should be less accepted in the market.
Thus, measures to limit absorption should not be used except to eat more fiber such as fruits and vegetables both reduce energy absorption of vitamins and trace elements and easy to digest.Treatment of obesity by a  Low calorie diet


Low calorie meals, easy to implement, effective
- Cons: prone to imbalance food components leads to imbalance of trace elements, so the additional need to learn to adjust.
- Cons:
Complete fasting to lose weight
Dietary with lowest calories (400 - 700 k cal)
- The effect of weight loss of 1.5 - 2.3 kg / week
However, can not be longer than 15 weeks because there will be more dangerous.
Thus, if the anti-obesity treatment an arbitrary, fasting to lose weight just is not enough to solve the long-term, medium danger to life. We need to have a balanced low calorie diet to treat obesity.

Balanced low-calorie diet
Obese people should be treated every year and prevent back fat, prevent mechanical, mineral imbalances precautions, trace and prevent complications vitamin deficiency.
Therefore use low calorie foods include:
- Low-carbohydrate, low in sugar
- Many fruits and vegetables, beans
- Adding synthetic vitamins trace elements
- Less calories: 1000 - 1200 k cal
- Precious enough protein: a quarter of the total calories (fish, lean meat, cheese)
- Low fat: 1/5 of the total calories (fish oil mixed with vegetable oil)
- Processing taste is long lasting.

Diet excessive anti-obesity and obesity treatment
- Do not eat overkill
- Reduction of energy put into the meal, drinking
- Energy put in not less than 800 k cal / day

Eat less fat, sugar, fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals, enough water and 6g salt / day.
- Increased energy consumption in physical activity, sport
Reduced weight. When BMI decreased energy, increased to reach normal meal.
- Need to change eating habits and exercise regime and long-term.



The food should be used:

- The Faculty
- The low-fat meats, shrimp, crab, fish
- Yogurt, milk, soy, milk, butter cup.
- Vegetables and fruits
- Grease limit of 10 - 20 g / day


b. Food should not be used:

- Fats and fatty meat, butter
- Oc, kidney, heart, liver, heart (because a lot of cholesterol)
- Limit sugar, honey sweet candy
- Give up wine, beer, coffee, tea and sugar
- Avoid salty foods, salty meal.

c. How food processing:

- Avoid fried frying fat
- Increased eating vegetables in the form of boiled soup, as mannequins and mixing oil and vinegar.
- Limited to 10 oil and fat - 12g / day
- 6g salt / day




Body mass index (BMI) desired by age
                        Age (years)                                                                        BMI
19 – 24
19 – 24

25 – 34
20 – 25

35 – 44
21 – 26

45 – 54
22 – 27

55 – 65
23 – 28

65 Up
24 – 29

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