Social factors obesity|Obesity health

In modern society, some people eat only to satisfy their hunger, but sometimes to enjoy and relish tasty dishes.  Sometimes, it even appears as if people don’t eat to live but they live only to eat!  In creating such a situation, the contribution of advertisements of processed food, released through different mass-media is by no means small.

The popular image of a fat person is that he is a happy-go lucky man, always jovial and gay.  In fact, fat persons have little option but to project only this side of their personality.  Behind the ask of his smiling face and sense of humour lies his tremendous internal conflict.

That physchological factors also play a role in causing obesity, it a well-known fact since years.

It is popular way to try to find an easy solution to serious problems and tensions of life through food.  Sense of insecurity,

depression and failure generate tendency to eat more and more.  Constant activity of eating gives some mental peace to a person.  A fat person generally tries to develop a false sense of security by indulging in overeating. 

During the course of his survey of 500 fat persons, Dr.Freed-15 noticed that 370 of them were eating more when they were worried or depressed, 95 ate more when thy were tired or bored; and the remaining 35 had nothing but genuine love for food and eating.  A meal is a symbol of love and affection in the Diat and Fitness.

When a person fails in getting love from any quarters, such a love-hungry person finds a sweet alternative in food.  And that is perhaps the reason why we insist on forcing our guests to eat, displaying thereby our love, warmth and affection of them!

It is also believed that spinsters, young windows and women who are deprived of conjugal happiness also tend to be fat.  Obesity is common among childless couples-16.  Man can transfer his happiness very tactfully.  Sometimes, a grave psychological shock can also generate obesity-17.

Those who have spent their infanthood and childhood in poverty and starvation are never able to forget or drive away the fear of unsatisfied hunger.  When such persons come into some more money or wealth, they tend to eat more and more.  This is generally the cause of obesity among self-made men in the Diat and Fitness.

In Short, fat people maintain their psychological balance by overeating.  And gradually they form carbohydrate addiction-18,19.

Fat people generally present their obesity as an excuse to cover their failures and laziness.  Obesity helps them in avoiding chores which they dislike or which involve any physical exertion.  They make obesity a convenient excuse to avoid attending social functions or to avoid responsibilities associated with marriage and consequently with rearing a family in the Diat and Fitness.

Once obesity takes its roots in the body, a person begins to consider himself different from others and tends to be lonely.  Such a development adds to his emotional problems.  This, in turn, causes further obesity creating a vicious circle.

However, mental tension does not always lead to obesity.  In some cases, the process s reverse; some people tend to eat less and less and gradually become lean due to weight-loss.

In short, psychological factors do play an important role in causing obesity.  If a person fails to reduce his weight even after resorting to all the known remedies, it is likely that some psychological problem is at work behind his obesity.