Obesity

Obesity is the disease that happens through excess accumulation of body fat. The external obese or non-proportionate overweight syndrome of the physical shape is the basic symptom of obesity. For many preceding decades to the present moment it is continuously rising to be one of the most common diseases and reached almost to an epidemic proportion in the recent years.

The cause of obesity is basically rooted in the modern inorganic life style. Modern life style factors like intake of junk or packaged food and beverages, stress, extreme dependence upon electronic consumer durables as well as automobiles and resulting physical inactivity, psychological factors like depression, etc. are the major contributing factors to obesity. Some other diseases and clinical conditions can also cause obesity but for the vast majority of cases factors associated with modern life style constitute the main locus of cause for the disease of obesity.

Obesity still is declared to be permanently non curable in the allopathic tradition of the modern medical science. In the treatment of the obesity mainly surgical procedures for reduction of excess fat, some medicines for fat liquidation and dietary as well as other beneficial life style practices are stressed as the treatment of obesity. Though outside of allopathic treatment for a great majority of cases in different parts of the world, ayurvedic, herbal, nutritional, life style adjustments and other alternative treatment methods have been proved more beneficial and lasting.