My dear I told you there are certain conditions which make it easier for people to gain weight. Depression is NOT known to cause weight gain. More than 90 percent of the patients have weight loss due to loss of appetite. However, less than 10 might have atypical depression in which the patient has increased appetite (hyperphagia).
There is no such condition called stress in medicine. It is a layman term usually used to described an anxiety states. Again anxiety disorders have different types. The one most commonly encountered is generalized anxiety disorder. Once again weight gain is not a rule; however, some patient with perennial anxiety usually cope with certain unhealthy behaviors, one of which is stress-eating.
Hyperthyroidism can cause dramatic weight loss within a matter of days and hypothyroid patients gain weight despite trying not to.
All these conditions are extremely important to be screened out once a person comes to the clinic with a weight problem. However, these problems account for less than 1 percent of the epidemic of overweight and obesity.
Obesity itself is going to be added to the list of diseases very soon in the future. Thus it would need treatment regardless of it is primary or secondar to some other illness.
I am never saying we should ridicule obese people. I am myself taking 3 hours of exercise these days to stop myself and I am almost touching the upper limit of normal. I have usually stayed in the lower limit. It is just a health condition which needs awareness. As simple as that. OK?
My dear I told you there are certain conditions which make it easier for people to gain weight. Depression is NOT known to cause weight gain. More than 90 percent of the patients have weight loss due to loss of appetite. However, less than 10 might have atypical depression in which the patient has increased appetite (hyperphagia).
There is no such condition called stress in medicine. It is a layman term usually used to described an anxiety states. Again anxiety disorders have different types. The one most commonly encountered is generalized anxiety disorder. Once again weight gain is not a rule; however, some patient with perennial anxiety usually cope with certain unhealthy behaviors, one of which is stress-eating.
Hyperthyroidism can cause dramatic weight loss within a matter of days and hypothyroid patients gain weight despite trying not to.
All these conditions are extremely important to be screened out once a person comes to the clinic with a weight problem. However, these problems account for less than 1 percent of the epidemic of overweight and obesity.
Obesity itself is going to be added to the list of diseases very soon in the future. Thus it would need treatment regardless of it is primary or secondar to some other illness.
I am never saying we should ridicule obese people. I am myself taking 3 hours of exercise these days to stop myself and I am almost touching the upper limit of normal. I have usually stayed in the lower limit. It is just a health condition which needs awareness. As simple as that. OK?