Being overweight has its share of health issues. It has been reported that about 300,000 people die each year due to weight or obesity-related complications. This refers to people from a cross-section of society who have a BMI or body mass index of 25-29, which many experts consider overweight. Obesity now affects over 25% of the US population, and more people realize that obesity kills. Overweight people struggle with sleep problems, breathing problems, susceptibility to disease and illness, chronic fatigue, and low self-esteem because the medial peddles people who are obese as abnormal and those that are skinny as the ideal.
Obesity is brought about for some reasons. One of them is eating more than the body is breaking down through the normal body metabolism. This causes excess fat to accumulate in many cases in the belly area and causes someone to be overweight. Then some people are overweight not because they over-eat, but because they have a genetic malfunction that causes their overall body metabolism to slow and food to be digested slowly. Others get overweight because of a combination of all of the reasons stated above, not to mention the contributing factor of a sedentary life. This means a life that is devoid of exercise and little movement. In the US, people live this life because of using their vehicles even for short distances. But there is some exercise that one can embark on to battle weight gain.
Running is one of the exercises that one can get into to combat obesity. In most places, enrolling in a gym is not even necessary. One can run in their neighborhood or compound. Walking is another. This does not involve much but just 20 minutes a day.
