Obesity is an ancient topic, as early as more than 2300 years ago, Hippocrates, who is respected as the “father of medicine” in the West, believed that “obesity is not only a disease in itself, but also a harbinger of other diseases”, and once said that ” Sudden death is often more common in fat people than in thin people”.
A. Fat is not a fault, it is a disease!
In 1997, the World Health Organization declared obesity as a disease, and defined it as a chronic disease in which the body stores too much energy in the form of fat. That “obesity will become the world’s leading health problems. Simple obesity is defined as a “chronic disease characterized by systemic hypertrophy of fat in the form of excessive nutrition, physical inactivity and behavioral deviations, closely related to lifestyle”.
According to the WHO recommendations, individuals can prevent and control obesity by.
1. limiting energy intake exclusively from fats and sugars;
2, increase the consumption of fruits, vegetables and legumes, whole grains and nuts;
3, regular physical exercise (children 60min per day, adults 150min per week).
Second, calculate your BMI
Obesity measurement most commonly used indicators for the body mass index (BMI), the specific calculation method is: BMI = weight / height 2 (kg/m2).
The purpose of using this index in determining the degree of obesity is to eliminate the influence of different heights on BMI, so as to facilitate comparison between populations or individuals.WHO defines adults with BMI between 25kg/m2 and 29.9kg/m2 as overweight and ≥30kg/m2 as obese. Also WHO defines waist circumference >94cm for men and >80cm for women as abdominal obesity.
The Chinese adult overweight and obesity prevention and control guidelines determine our adult BMI in 24.0kg/m2 ~ 27.9kg/m2 for overweight ≥ 28kg/m2 for obese, male waist circumference ≥ 85cm, female waist circumference ≥ 80cm for abdominal obesity.
Third, the more obese, the more disease!
China’s population nutrition and chronic disease status report (2015) shows that the overweight rate of adults aged 18 years and above is 30.1%, and the obesity rate is 11.9%. Studies show that people with BMI ≥24kg/m2 have 3-4 times the risk of hypertension and 2-3 times the risk of diabetes than those with normal weight.
Men with a waist circumference of 85 cm or more and women with a waist circumference of 80 cm or more have about 3.5 times the risk of hypertension and 2.5 times the risk of diabetes than those with a waist circumference below this limit.
A prospective study of 10 populations in China showed that increased body mass index was an independent risk factor for the development of coronary heart disease, and the incidence of coronary events increased with increasing body mass index. Therefore, compared with Europe and the United States, the Chinese population obesity will be accompanied by more metabolic abnormalities, the risk of hypertension, diabetes and other chronic diseases will be higher.
Fourth, the ancients say “obesity”
The yellow emperor’s internal classic
Chinese medicine as early as the “yellow emperor’s internal classic” on obesity that has a preliminary understanding, determined the cream people, fat people, meat people three basic types “Ling Shu – Wei Qi is out of order”.
The yellow emperor said: how to degree to know its fat and thin? Berko said: people have fat, cream, meat. The yellow emperor said: what is the difference between this? high said: popliteal flesh firm, skin full of people, fat. Popliteal flesh is not firm, the skin is slow, paste. The skin and flesh do not leave each other, meat.
Shuowen Jiezi
”Shuowen Jiezi” has the words fat, half body meat. A said wide meat. From half, from the meat. Half also sound. Half, divided cattle. The original meaning of ancient rituals with half of the animal meat. Fat, fat also. Fat, from meat, originally meaning fatty. Fat, more meat also.
In ancient times, there is basically no strict distinction and definition of fat and fat, fat and fat is considered only the degree of heavy and light. Fat, shaped like a full moon also, fat, shaped like a half-moon also.
Shennong Ben Cao Jing (Divine Husbandman’s Classic of the Materia Medica), Preparedness and Emergency Thousand Gold Essential Formula
The Shennong Ben Cao Jing has recorded a large number of “light body” products, such as Chinese wolfberry, ginseng, poria, dulcimer, cuscuta, dihuang, yam, jujube, and so on. The Tang dynasty doctor Sun Si invites in the “preparation of urgent thousand gold essential formula” recorded “three peach blossoms, Yin dry end of the, …… can thin waist body, people face white Yue Ze ……” because is the peach blossom is with weight loss The actual “peach blossoms” have a weight loss effect and can be taken often to make the waist and abdomen slim.
The “Medical Department Quan Lu” “Dan Xi Xin Fa
The medical department full record” has recorded winter melon for can treat obesity: “people too fat want to get thin light health, available winter melon for long-term consumption of soup, want to increase fat then do not eat this thing.” Yuan – Zhu Zhenheng “Danxi Xinfa” “fat people more deficiency, fat people more wet more phlegm” theory, the treatment advocates “it is appropriate to dry dampness to go phlegm, moving qi, two Chen Tang plus Mu Xiang, two atractylodes, Xiang Shen, rhizome, return, or guide phlegm soup.”
Five, overcome obesity, from me to do
Obesity is the main risk factor of hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke, breast cancer and other cancers, and is recognized by the World Health Organization as the fifth most important risk factor affecting health. Therefore, we must overcome obesity.