Causes

The steps that lead to obesity: - In the developed countries people enjoy the fruits of development and technological advancement. Because of their affluence, mechanization is available for almost all-routine chores to them. This leads to their getting minimum physical exercise. This is the first step towards obesity or fatness.
In some advanced countries, mini cars are being used for going about within their expansive offices and work areas. In many homes three to four connections of telephones, intercoms, remote controls etc. restrict even the bare minimum movement of even young children. Time and labour saving devices have denied us good health and a trim body.

The friendly culprit: - Refrigerator was invented for utility purpose. In vegetables, dairy products or medicines are stored and preserved. It would certainly be considered a necessity rather than a luxury, but what we find generally is that a fridge is converted into a store house for all sorts of left over of cooked food items, cold drinks, and ice creams, cakes, puddings and the like, it often results in many avoidable maladies, obesity being one of them. Storing food items gives an easy access to them and encourages frequent eating habits. And this is the another step towards obesity.

Eating pattern adds obesity: - That luxurious eating habits and life styles confine only to royal families is not truer today. Trying to keep up with the Joneses be it a marriage party or any other function encourages people to serve readily available food items rich in calories and refined carbohydrates. Catering services have become a thriving business. Tailor made lunch & dinner kept warm on sprit lamps to retain heat constantly to be served fresh further make the food more refined and add more calories to it.

Obesity the disease royal: - Obesity can be called a royal disease. Royal games like chess, which do not provide any physical exercise to the players and is generally played indoors. In those days kings & Nawabs played chess whenever they were in need of diversion & relaxation. The present generation has found exposure in abundance to such games video games, computer & T.V games and these breed in the children and youngsters the tendency to avoid other sports & outdoor games which give physical exercise.

Royal road, which stands for a short and easy way to overcome difficulties, has come to play its own role. Progress and advancement towards better living conditions of the people all over the world has brought with it many disadvantages too. Comfortable & luxurious life style of living influenced by the television network & magazines, constantly keep projecting all labour saving device one could acquire for their day to day living. People least realise that by falling a prey to these devises, they are gradually getting alienated from much needed normal exercise which these chores provide.

Obesity in different stages: -

Children & obesity: - Obesity in children is something, which we are coming across more and more nowadays. This, to a very great extent, could be attributed to heredity. It is commonly found that a child born to over weight parents, has a 90% chance to become obese.
The question that may cross any one's mind is why does heredity cause overweight? It is because in most of the cases the child simply inherits good appetite and they are not discouraged from eating anything and everything at anytime and all the time. This results in faulty digestion and poor absorption, culminating in obesity.
It is also found that child born to mothers who are over fed with artificial and fatty food lacking in nutrition during their last three months of pregnancy, give birth to over weight children. It is also wrongly believed by most mothers that an overweight child must be fed more because the size of the stomach seems large. The child is trained to over eat at a very young age and weight keep increasing alarmingly.