Obesity is excessive accumulation of fat in our body and its deposition in hypoderm, omentum and other tissues and organs.

The reasons for obesity are metabolic disorders: the process of fat formation from food nutrients comes faster than the process of breaking fat. Commonly obesity emerges due to systematic overeating, low physical activity and genetic factor. But it's worthy of note that in case of "family obesity" the blame lays on family diet traditions rather than genetic background.

Obesity is shown as significant gain of body weight. If a person keeps on overeating, the disease advances. It happens because formed adipose tissue needs feeding, and that leads to appetite rising.

But obesity means not only problems with our body looks. The changes in metabolism and increment load on bones and joint lead to serious changes in musculoskeletal system, accompanied with pains. In case of morbid obesity respiratory distress are inevitable, leading to pulmonary and heart insufficiency. Obesity contributes to evolution of diabetes, cholelithiasis, atherosclerosis, hypertension, myocardial infarction and many other diseases. Scientific studies proved that life span of obese people is below the average.

The basic treatment for obesity is strict dieting. The diet should be prescribed by the doctor who takes into account all our specific medical conditions and the state of disease. The diet should combine with special physical activity aimed at significant increase of metabolic cost, as well as stimulation of respiratory, cardiovascular and other systems of our body. Any medicinal treatment with appetite suppressants, along with any kinds of starvation or fasting days should be carried out only under specialist's control. Any kind of self treatment can be dangerous to our health and lead to aggravation of metabolism.

Obesity prevention is a forehanded treatment of metabolic disorders, systematical sporting and dieting that matches perfectly our metabolic cost.