OBESITY: CAUSES AND THE DIET REGIMEN IN THE ITS EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Obesity or fatness is an intricate ailment caused by dietary, lifestyle, ecological factors and genetic factors which lead to augmented body mass and body fat mass. WHO reports and surveys statistically shows that how obesity is continuously growing in todays world and become one of the most common disease nowadays. Obesity enables the expansion of metabolic syndromes like hypertension, diabetes, and circulatory or cardiac ailments also lasting ailments like osteoarthritis, stroke, some cancers, inflammatory disease etc. There are different ways for management of diet like diuretics, pharmacotherapy, surgical treatment, physical activity, and diet control and intervention. Recent researches demonstrated the management or prevention of obesity with the help of diet. Mediterranean diet, little carb and small fat diets are very helpful and effective in weight reduction. Caloric intake and energy expenditure is ultimate cause of obesity. Therefore, on the basis of calorie intake diets are classified into high, moderate, and low fat diets. Some popular diets which are commonly followed by the people all over the world like Atkins, Weight watchers, Zone and Ornish diet help in weight loss programme. In this review, we discuss the diets which help in prevention and management of obesity.