Obesity or corpulence symptoms and causes

Obesity also know as corpulence is a disorder of the glands in the body. It is not easy to define the state of obesity except in very broad terms. It is generally speaking a condition of the body characterized by the over accumulation of fat under the skin and around certain internal organs of the body.

The body mass index  or actuarial charts of weights for men and women according to their heights are only rough indications of the state of the person depending on his body weight.

Various causes are assigned for the product of corpulence. It may be due to disturbances of some of the endocrine glands, such as thyroid, pituitary and other glands. Obesity runs in some family i.e hereditary. But beyond that obesity is due to wrong diets and generally over eating.

A luxurious inactive or sedentary life is a well recognized predisposing factor. The more immediate exiting causes are over eating and intake of liquids in particular  liquors. Health cannot be long maintained under excessive obesity as exercising become more difficult leads to defective nutrition of muscles. The obese are more liable to fail prey to disease because of the lowered body resistance against disease. Consult your doctor for further assistance on combating obesity.