Obesity is a disease

• • Gastrointestinal tract: steatohepatitis, cholelithiasis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, disturbance of quantitative and qualitative microbiological composition of the gastrointestinal tract, intestinal diverticular disease, leaky gut syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, microscopic colitis.
  • Increased cancer risk: in women: cancers of the body and cervix, ovary, gallbladder], breast cancer; in men: colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, pseudotumour of the brain (intracranial hypertension).
  • Immune system: increased inflammatory index.

• Excretory system: glomerulosclerosis.

• Locomotor system: joint strain, especially in the knee and hip joints, juvenile femoral epiphysis, Blount’s disease, knock-knees, flat feet, varicose veins in the lower limbs, gout, aseptic necrosis of the hip joint, postural problems, back pain, forearm fracture, dislocation of the femoral head.
• Skin: keratoses, stretch marks, hirsutism, lymphoedema, burns.
• Neurological: pseudotumor cerebri, meralgia with paresthesias, migraines, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease
• Reduced quality of life: low self-esteem, periods of depression, sometimes a sense of social isolation, poorer academic performance, anxiety, increased number of hospitalisations

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