Foreword This topic deals mainly with the psychological aspects of overweight. Permanent weight reduction can only be achieved if the mechanisms leading to obesity are understood. Synonyms in a broader sense Medical: Adiposity Overweight, obese, fat, thick, obese, corpulent, full, chubby, obesity per magna, obesity, ideal weight, normal weight, underweight Definition overweight The term overweight … Overweight and psychology
Frequency (Epidemiology) Occurrence in the populationEtwa every 5th adult and every 20th young person in Germany suffers from obesity (overweight) requiring treatment. The probability of becoming overweight clearly increases with age. Especially women are at risk with increasing age. In addition to determining the BMI (Body Mass Index) and the distribution of fat, medical laboratory … Frequency (Epidemiology) | Overweight and psychology
Therapy overweight The modern therapeutic approach to treating obesity must take into account today’s knowledge of this disorder. It is simply not enough to forbid an obese patient to eat and to scare him with stories of high blood pressure and heart attacks. Today’s therapy should be carried out in different stages, which ideally build … Therapy overweight | Overweight and psychology
Eating habits As already mentioned, it usually brings only annoyance if you forbid a person to eat. For this reason it is important not to consider the food itself, but its composition in the therapy. In concrete terms this means, for example, that animal fats should be replaced by vegetable fats and that about half … Eating habits | Overweight and psychology
