Despite the normal tests, people with obesity are compromised health

Growing cases of obesity raise concern and alert the search for appropriate treatments. With increasing numbers and more impact, the disease is increasingly worrying, and should be reversed with specialized medical help. It is this help that can save the lives of many patients who sometimes do not present health problems in their usual clinical exams, since the symptoms take some time to appear.

Obesity is a chronic, long-term evolutionary disease , which causes inflammation in the body, including in the hormonal system. This inflammation, caused by excess adipose tissue, triggers some degenerative effects in all organ systems and may eventually result in so-called sudden death. In the United States, for example, per year, more than 240,000 sudden deaths are caused by severe obesity.

The disease is also associated with heart muscle suffering due to tissue hypo-oxygenation caused by microhypoxiasis, leading to arrhythmia cardiac arrest, and increased cancer cell formation.

Losing weight is not easy, especially when obesity is a fact in the patient's life. With different metabolisms and routines, people also need new stimuli, other than willpower, that can keep the body healthy.

The treatment of obesity is similar to that of diseases such as diabetes or hypertension, that is, there is no cure and is for the rest of life. If it is suspended, the symptoms return. Therefore, the role of the nutrologist is so important, since he directs changes and developments in the clinical picture of the individual.

For these reasons, nutrology grows and strengthens as a medical specialty that deals with nutrition in all its scope, always seeking the best for people with obesity. They deserve more attention from the entities responsible for their treatments, so that we may, in the near future, decrease the growing data on obesity in Brazil.

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