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OBESITY
EFFECTS (II)
CEREBRAL
EFFECTS
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Cerebral
vascular accident |
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Due to the excess of
fat in the body caused by obesity, fat is deposited into the cerebral arteries
and the flow of blood becomes narrower each time. Therefore these blood
vessels becomes so narrow that the diameter could easily clog said blood
vessel causing a vascular cerebral accident.
DERMATOLOGICAL
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Stretch marks |
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Skin pigmentation |
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Hirsutism |
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Profuse
perspiration |
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Furunculosis |
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Fungus infections |
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The accumulation of fat
in obese persons occurs in the subcutaneous tissue where it becomes deposited.
The skin is composed by elastin, which provides a certain capacity for its
elasticity and to make room for this excess fat. But it reaches a limit, which
causes this tissue to break and thereby forms stretch marks which, depending
on the degree of obesity and genetics of each individual, the distribution and
intensity differ.
In the same manner,
when the skin breaks it starts to pigment these zones because the melanin
uses it as a means to defending the breaking of the skin.
During the process of
obesity, there is also a change in the endocrine system, both in the central
glands as in the sweat and fatty glands of the skin, resulting in greater hair
growth in different regions of the body, aka hirsutism. Perspiration also
increases, and due to obesity furuncles appear in the chafing zones and in the
folds between the skin infections, caused by fungus, start to appear.
GASTROINTESTINAL
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Esophagus reflux |
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Gastritis |
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Vesicular
Lithiasis |
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Fat liver |
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Colitis |
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Cancer of colon |
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Hemorrhoids |
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In obesity there is an
exaggerated consumption of food, regardless of type, quality, texture or
amount of same which accounts for the inflammation of the stomach mucous, which
causes gastritis and due to the large amount of food the esophagus-gastric
angle weakens and allows the acid of the stomach to revert to the esophagus,
thereby provoking an esophagus reflux.
Because of all these
food excesses, the bile vesicle becomes insufficient and it starts to
accumulate the bile in its interior and with the passing of time a vesicular
lithiasis appears.
Due to the presence of
excess fat in obesity, the liver is unable to metabolize all the fat and
thereby begins to accumulate in the liver cells, causing the well known liver
fat.
Due to the above, there
is also a risk of inflammation of the mucous of the thick intestine, better
known as colitis, which can cause cancer of the colon.
Due to the excess of food
intake in the digestive apparatus the veins found in the bottom of the colon
can become inflamed and cause hemorrhoids which could bleed or thrombosize,
requiring an emergency surgical intervention.
FOLLOWING:
GENITAL URINARY SEQUELS
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