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From the medical point, the obesity, is characterized by the excess of fatty weave in a person, as well as by the serious complications that produce. The best measurement against the obesity is the prevention, but once installed it must treat, fundamentally fighting his causes. The obesity is more important "the chronic-degenerative" disease at world-wide level.

It is necessary to exile incorrect nutritional conducts. The obesity is a disease originated by multiple causes: genetics, social, psychological, metabolic, etc.

Commonest it is by bad nutritional habits. This disease increases to twelve times mortality in the population in general. The most important complications of the obesity are diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, coronary risks, ortopédicos upheavals, sterility and many more.

The person who low of weight can recover it if she does not modify his patterns of feeding and their style of life. The obese people eat more quickly than the thin ones, which causes that they have a greater nourishing ingestion, with heavy digestions, reason why they exercise themselves less than the others. She compensates it emotional that experiences the people who manage to lower of weight is very rewarding, because she manages to improve his self-esteem and she increases his quality of life.

The obesity prevents the normal activity, originates short breathing, provides a bad appearance, produces muscular weakness: "to get fat it is to age".

To treat this disease not only is by aesthetic, is to improve the health and to increase the life expectancy. The treatment for the obesity is a process of personal change, that requires a certain time and that is not generally very short. Only one of each five obese ones arrives at the 70 years of age.

The overfeeding and lack of exercise produce obesity. The obesity must to endogenous and exogenous causes, being the these last most common ones. When the operation of one of the organs of the body is not the adapted one, the others are affected. The lack of physical exercise lowers the resistance to the diseases. When there is disease is physical damage, psychological and social.

There is total health when the dynamic balance between the body, the spirit and the social surroundings is obtained.