The causes of overweight

The conditions of life have changed completely, within the last decades one eats much with a high fat content, more stress moves considerably less and has. These aspects play U are an important role at the emergence of overweight. However, you can also by inheritance, changed eat habituations or by eat behavior disorders are triggered. If in the long run more calories than requires the energy consumption are brought to the body, the body weight increases. In this case one talks about positive balance sheets.

The energy balance of the body is an important aspect to find out the causes of overweight. The energy consumption of the body is dependent on three factors: Basal metabolic rate, work metabolism and energy consumption by eating. The basal metabolic rate is the energy which one needs for maintaining all body functions at rest. The height of the basal metabolic rate is dependently and possibly fixed genetically of the muscle mass. Some people burn more calories than the others, i.e. they can without gaining weight nutrition at rest more to himself take. The giant share of the energy is burned in the musculature. The muscle mass forms back, the metabolism events take place more slowly and the body of few motion has what leads to the less energy consumption with this more oldly want to. The basal metabolic rate of a man decreases considerably through this.

The work metabolism is the energy which one expends for motion. It can be increased by regular sports. He is approx. a third of the complete energy consumption. The nutrition dependent consumption is the energy which the body needs to utilize the taken nutrition. Nutrition fats can lightly be changed into body fat, carbohydrates need energy against the one of quite a lot for the utilization. This component turns off approx. a tenth of the complete energy consumption.

Since the height of the basal metabolic rate is fixed genetically, the inheritance plays an important role in arising of the overweight so. The reaction of the human body at the same calorie supply is completely different. Some burn much at rest, some less calories. After the set point theory the human organism gets to controlled on its individual weight again and again. The genes cause a third of the overweight, however, don't become the overweight it into themselves but bequeath the predisposition.

The eating behavior disorders, external influences by environment and family, psychological aspects as well as stress, anxiety and sorrow, medicines as well as hormone preparations e.g. birth control pill be able to also to overweight lead.


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