What is obesity?

I have a noticeable increase in weight and I ask about the risks of obesity, especially since I am a young man and I am not married yet?

Answer the question Dr. Khalid Jawdat Professor of bariatric surgery in Ain Shams and president of the Egyptian Association for Bariatric Surgeries says:

Obesity is a disease that has spread over the last 10 years as a result of a comfortable modern life, and I have noticed that when the weight is more than 40 kilos above the ideal weight, obesity causes many diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and breathing and has caused Obesity is impaired reproduction or infertility in the ladies and the pains of the back paragraphs and the erosion of the joints and may reach to become a person bedding, as research has also shown the relationship of obesity with some types of cancers such as breast cancer, colon and uterus, and the mental illness is one of the most important complications of obesity where the owner The heavy weight of unsuccessful attempts to get rid of his weight over the years and escapes from the looks of society and all this leads him to depression and isolation, these problems made the World Health Organization adopt obesity as a stand-alone disease and declared that obesity is the second biggest neglected health problem in the world after smoking.

Obesity is the increase of fat in the body and the person is considered obese if he weighs more than the ideal weight by 20% and calculates the ideal weight by the equation of the body mass index and calculated as follows:

Weight per kilogram/square length for example, for a person weighing 70 kg and 170 cm length, the body mass guide has 70 km ÷ 1.7 x 1.7 = 24, 2 kg.

Dr. Jawdat pointed out that the body mass evidence of natural weight is 21 – 25 kg and onset of morbid obesity when the body mass exceeds 40 kg and at this weight the diseases associated with obesity begins to emerge, namely pressure, sugar, blockage of the arteries of the heart, breathing troubles, snoring, knee pain, ankle, joints and slipping The herniated disc.