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Extreme Obese Women Serious Health Dangers
Extreme obese women are putting their health and their lives at risk by remaining heavy. While obesity affects both sexes and can ruin the health of men and women, extreme obese women face some special health challenges that men dont have to worry about.
One condition that only extreme obese women will face because its related to their reproductive system is PCOS. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome can occur in any woman, overweight or not, but its much more common among overweight and obese women.
It can even occur in young girls who are just entering puberty, but generally doesnt unless theyre overweight. When it occurs very young, serious reproductive problems can result.
PCOS is a condition that can go hand in hand with insulin resistance. When a person is overweight and/or eating a diet rich in simple carbs that are absorbed quickly into the bloodstream, insulin resistance can occur pretty easily.
This is when the bodys insulin production is no longer enough to remove the blood sugar from the blood stream. The body has become insulin resistant because of the large amounts that have been released by necessity over a period of time.
While a person can be insulin resistant and not have PCOS, if a person develops the condition its generally because theyre insulin resistant and essentially pre-diabetic. PCOS causes small cysts to grow on the ovaries. While the cysts themselves arent harmful, they cause hormone imbalances that lead to other problems.
A hallmark of PCOS is elevated testosterone levels. This male hormone in too high levels in females like extreme obese women can cause things like facial hair growth, excessive hair growth in places like the face, stomach and back, and problems with the reproductive cycle.
When too much testosterone is present in a womans body, menstrual periods can be delayed, irregular and either very light or very heavy. In some cases, periods can stop altogether. PCOS can affect the reproductive cycle so much that it can be difficult or impossible for a woman to get pregnant.
PCOS causes weight gain, and can make it very difficult for extreme obese women or any women to lose weight. Acne flare-ups are often a sign of PCOS too, because high levels of testosterone are linked with acne break outs.
Another symptom of PCOS is depression. While being obese can also contribute to depression, the hormone changes and fluctuations caused by PCOS can directly contribute to feelings of sadness and depression, too.
While doctors say that PCOS cant be prevented, eating healthy, getting regular exercise and not smoking are the recommended treatments for the condition. So it stands to reason that if you practice these things already, even if youre pre-disposed to developing the condition you may never suffer symptoms of the disease.
PCOS can strike any girl, even teenagers, but those who eat poor diets, dont exercise, and smoke are at a greater risk. For extreme obese women, its almost not a matter of whether or not theyll get PCOS, but when.
BONUS : Fad Diets
Weight loss diets are big business very big business. Last year alone, Americans spent an estimated $46 MILLION on diet products, books, and programs. That's a lot of bucks!
Weight loss diets have been around for a while now. William the Conqueror was so disturbed about the weight he had gained that he locked himself in a room, ate no food, and drank only alcohol. Sounds like fun, but it didn't work. He died when he fell off of a horse, and he was so obese that the clergy had a problem fitting all of him into his stone sarcophagus.
I remember my grandmother going on the banana and pineapple diet. She ate nothing but bananas and pineapples for several weeks. She didn't lose any weight because she ate so many of them, and after she gave up that fad diet, she never ate another banana or pineapple as long as she lived.
Some of the fad diets that come along are weird, some of them are laughable, and some of them sound so reasonable that one would think that maybe the painless road to weight loss had finally been discovered. The old eat less/exercise more tried-and-true road to weight loss isn't much fun. So if a painless weight loss diet has been discovered, the world wants to know what it is.
The Atkins Diet was a biggie. The diet said that the problem of weighing too much wasn't caloric intake or lack of exercise. The problem was carbohydrate intake. We were told to eat all of the meat and meat products that we wanted; just avoid vegetables and all grains and we would lose weight without being hungry. The thing is, the plan did work for a while. It just didn't work forever. Pounds were lost and promptly regained. The body needs a well-balanced diet to function correctly, and it simply will not put up with that kind of abuse for long.
A good diet is one you can stick with even when you have lost all of the weight you want to lose.