Obesity and depression due to lack of affection

• April 23, 2024

The obesity It is one of the main health problems in Mexico. People who suffer from it come to suffer irreversible injuries in bones , renal insufficiency , loss of sight, and even amputations in legs and feet associated with diabetes caused by the overweight .

In an interview for GetQoralHealth , the doctor Joel Estarada explains what the overweight   and gives some recommendations for its treatment, in order to avoid cardiovascular problems .

Another factor that currently worries are the psychological repercussions that theobesity . In this regard, the specialist and coordinator of theInstitute of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome at Hospital Angeles Roma , Jorge Enrique Ramírez Velásquez , points out that in Mexico there are approximately 11 million people withobesity and more than 60% of these present some psychiatric disorder .

Ramírez Velásquez says that being obese affects our ego and vanity, and predisposes us to have a depression; as a result of being depressed the patient looks sweetie Y affected through food.

He also considered that when a person lets himself get fat it is because he presents an alteration in the brain , because they use it to consumecalories "empty" calls that come from bread , the cookies and the junk food in general. "Unfortunately the brain it stops needing normal calories and only looks for empty ones that do not nourish ".

The specialist states that the childhood It is the stage where you must act to avoid this type of suffering, so it encourages parents not to force their children to eat all the food that is served, because this causes the levels of regulation of satiety . It also recommends do not punish them for not eating or reward them with sweets Y cookies if they do it.

In this sense, Ramírez Velásquez stressed that the lack of affection and time with the children to feed them influences the food patterns: "If we have a careless mother or father who gives anything to her children, that will lead to inadequate eating habits, which in the future will have important repercussions on her metabolism and consequently overweight" .

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