In my community, the likely factors that contribute to obesity are affluence, sedentary lifestyle and uncontrolled eating habits.

I have a related thread. Great minds think alike.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_extent_of_threat_from_non-communicable_diseases_NCDs_in_your_community_and_what_are_the_measures_taken_concerning_preventing_NCDs

Inactivity or Sedentary life style which was adopted by many of the youth may result in over weight / obesity.

Junk food / Fried food which are available so easy in the market and with affordable price. ( Current scenario in India is very cheap and easy to buy).

Dear Ratan I think obesity and overweight is connected with home education habits as well as public education qualities. Children, adolescents with overweight are since years raised with lack of parental attention, for their eating habits development. Another factor is current lifestyle and kind of wrong public education concluding that "eating is basic" in any moment of social and cultural life for ex. in cinema. Commercials and advertisements are creating illusionary world of happiness connected with consumptions of junk food.

Obesity is multifactorial. It is associated with sedentary lifestyle, dietory habits, genetic or hereditary, hormonal imbalance, etc. out of which the most common cause is unhealthy food and lack of physical activity.

In my community, the likely factors that contribute to obesity are affluence, sedentary lifestyle and uncontrolled eating habits.

I have a related thread. Great minds think alike.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_extent_of_threat_from_non-communicable_diseases_NCDs_in_your_community_and_what_are_the_measures_taken_concerning_preventing_NCDs

Healthy Weight - it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle!

Three are the main factors that influence obesity/ overweight:

Environment: If you live in an enviroment that push you to eat junk food, etc. then you can get out of balance!

Genetics: For example the American Indians, thei have genes that preserve fat, in order to stay alive if he cannot find food. Noe that the conditions have changed, and the genes did not have time to adapt, almast all Indians are extremely fat! I have a friend that eats too much, all types of food and he does not gain any weight.

Diseases and Drugs: Sometime drugs give a start up for obesity/ overweight.

Less Physical activity, Immobile work orientations, More fatty foods, Residual drug disorders, also genetic, psychological disorders, excess eating, excessive smoking and drinking are some of the reasons leading to obesity/ overweight

Dear @Ratan, obesity becomes epidemic in many countries. Factors that lead to obesity vary from person to person; however, a lack of energy balance leads to obesity, which means that energy intake has to be equal to energy spent.

The following article discusses the issue of reducing childhood obesity through policy change in order to prevent obesity:

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/29/3/357.long

Dear All,

In archaic or aboriginal societies obesity was extremely rare. Main reason of obesity is the total change of our life style, our relationship to nature.

Some bad cultural alterations:

Food overconsumption

Too much carbohydrate in diet

Too much processed food in diet

Not suitable feeding models

Lack of physical activities

Manual work, sport activity decrease in people’s life

Watching Tv (many hours a day) became a general life style

Playing computer games in childhood instead of sport

I agree with all the previous answer.

Maybe, Ratan, also genetic and physiological factors should be considered in the etiopathogenesis and maintenance of obesity, even if we still lack a detailed understanding of the neuro-biological relationships that exist between feeding behavior, reward systems and emotion regulation.

Furthermore, some studies (i.e.: http://tauruspet.med.yale.edu/staff/edm42/courses/ENAS_880_2011/papers/GJ-Wang-Lancet-2001-obesity.pdf) found a lower "availability" of dopamine D2 receptor in obese patients in proportion to their BMI. In addition, the "hyperphagia" - characterized by a "strong motivational drive" regarding foods - can be considered a mental disease like "substance abuse"(http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/data/Journals/AJP/3812/07aj0708.PDF).

Hope this will be useful!

Dear All, every one of you have added some or other new spices in this discussion and I am thanking you for that...

Dear Ratan,

The "National heart, lung and blood institute" U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has discussed what cause overweight or obesity... Have a look on it...

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/obe/causes.html

@ Surbala, Thanks for your valuable link...

I think that most of the case is a combination of the new professions of 'chair', working in front of a PC, eating junk foods like fried potatoes and continue sitting until late night with pizzas watching TV...

I note that speaking of overweight and obesity, most researchers focused on life style and sedentary. However, be taken into account alarmingly growing group of people with hypothyroidism - even children. Thus, obesity is not just a change habits and dietary preferences , but also environmental factors resulting.

Check the following links. These recent reviews compel us to think beyond diet and physical activity.

http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v30/n11/full/0803326a.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2932668/

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1208051

Very Nice, Ahed! I've never heard about this correlation. Can You give us a link to your article? Thanks!

Obesity probably is a result of ;

Faulty diet - Eating at improper times in improper amounts and not eating a balanced diet containing more proteins and vitamins and growth factors than carbohydrates and fats.

No movements - physical exercise and exertion help in consuming calories

No mental exertion - which also consumes calories

Negative mindset - About not being able to lose weight, slow and steady weight reduction can be achieved.

@ Ahed, kindly consider for publishing it so that we all get benefit....

@ Ahed, kindly consider publishing it so that all of us will get benefitted...

Dear Ahed,

for me it's very interesting! Maybe You should consider if the infection is a causative factor or secondary to diabetic pathology. But, then again, it is very interesting!

@ Jaya Madam, Thanks for the interesting input...

Dear Ratan,

Here you are a picture of Pawel Kuchynski on possible raisons of obesity:

A very typical András, thanks.

But the main reason for obesity besides some illness effects is the wrong nourishment and not the reading from a display.

@Ratan et al., now at last I can elaborate on what I stated earlier as factors leading to obesity: affluence, sedentary lifestyle and uncontrolled eating habits.

1. On affluence: So many of my rich friends do not do their own housework. They get an Indonesian of Filipino maid to do the cooking, laundry, mopping and taking care of the baby! Or if they don't have a full time, live-in maid, they use laundry services to wash and to press their clothes.

2. On sedentary lifestyle: Even for distances of 500 meters, they drive. Excuse: 'it may rain'. They just dislike walking!

3. On eating habits: the favorite, national dish is 'nasi lemak', rice cooked in coconut milk and eaten with chicken, beef or prawn curry, and some cucumber slices. Most of the time the curry is thickened with coconut milk. Besides, the snacks are fried banana fritters and a lot of fried food - lots of trans fat. Malaysia is supposed to be a food paradise!

@ Dear Kamal, I agree with you completely... A big thanks to all the contributions for your valuable inputs. It seams that the factor which leads to obesity is multifactorial. Physical inactive, sedentary lifestyle, environmental factors, hormonal, diets etc seeming to play major role.

Regards

Intake of high calorie diet and unhealthy foods

Stressful life style

No physical exercise

These three are the major reasons of obesity

1. Inappropriate dietary habits- packaged food, soft drinks, excessive oil, butter annd cheese

2. Reduced physical activity- Sedentary leisure tima activity, table work job (desk job)

Thats imbalance between input and output..( law of thermodynamics)

3. Genetic factors

4. Cultural fectors

5. Technology- watching tv, playing game statuon, using computer > 3 hr a day

6. Urbanization- less open play areas especially for children and adolescents

7. Motorized equipment- for house hold activities dusting, clening etc. and transportation cars, buses, trains etc.

8. Psychological factors

9. Hormonal factors- Poly cystic overian syndrome etc.

These all fectors leads to increase in number of overweight and obese people and thus an unhealthy world..