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Other diseases

It is also related to such varied things such as diabetes, pulmonary hypoventilation or decreased testosterone in men, or infertility and menstrual irregularities in women.

Besides the aesthetic aspect, which may have greater or lesser importance, being overweight negatively affects the health and quality of life.

There is evidence that overweight, in addition to raising blood pressure limits the effectiveness of drugs, so that the more overweight as many drugs and poor control of the blood pressure.

The reduction of overweight is an essential step in the treatment of hypertension, but it is not necessary to arrive at weight loss: a loss of 3-4 kg a significant impact on blood pressure control.

Being overweight is a major cause of drug-resistant hypertension, ie hypertension that is very difficult to control and if you are an obese hypertensive patients should strive to lose weight but are being treated with antihypertensive drugs.

People suffering from a disorder characterized by power

Extremists in terms of food consumption, as evidenced by severe weight loss, rapid weight gain, or subject to major fluctuations in weight.

Dissatisfaction with body image, often accompanied by a distorted perception of body signals (hunger, anger, fatigue etc.).

Unhealthy practices to maintain weight, such as: fasting, starvation, compulsive eating, indiscriminate use of laxatives, weight loss drugs, diuretics and excessive exercise.

Irrational fear of gaining weight and an obsessive desire to lose weight.

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