The causes of the obesity are multiple, and they include such factors like the genetic heredity; the behavior of the nervous system, endocrino and metabolic; and the type or life style that takes.

If there is consumed major quantity of energy of the necessary one this one accumulates in the shape of fat, if it consumes more energy that the necessary one uses the fat as as an energy. Therefore the obesity takes place for energy excess, like turned out from alterations in the balance of entry / exit of energy. As a result diverse complications can take place as there are the arterial hypertension, the diabetes mellitus and the cardiovascular diseases.

The heredity has an important role, so much that the risk of suffering obesity for a child is 10 times superior to obese parents to the normal thing. Partly it stems from metabolic tendencies of accumulation of fat, but partly it is due to the fact that the nutritive and sedentary cultural habits help to be repeated by the bosses of obesity of parents to children.

Another part of the obese ones the son for hormonal illnesses or endocrinos, and they can be solved by means of a correct diagnosis and specializing treatment

Looking for the balance.

Let's give of knowing that every 250 grams of fat are equivalent to 3.500 calories. If we have fat excess we must calculate the calories that they represent and diminish them in the ingestion in a suitable period of time.

Content in calories of diverse elements:

We must treat appropriately the underlying illnesses, if they exist. From here he depends looking for the balance, by means of adjustments in the diet.

The diet must be adapted to the necessary activity, for it a very intensive diet in very active persons is counter-productive. It has to of softer diets and more concubines tend to realize.

As soon as the ideal weight was reached there must be supported the alertness of the balance of food earnings and energy consumption.