Is obesity a disease?

Today I'm going to talk about something different respect to the others blogs before. I mean, I'm going to touch an important matter related to health, and yes, as you can see on the title, I'm meaning to obesity and it's characteristics as an illness. But first, it is an illness? well, let's see what important institutions says about this. For example the CDC (Centers for Desease Control and Prevention) says,

"Obesity is a serious concern because it is associated with poorer mental health outcomes, reduced quality of life, and the leading causes of death in the U.S. and worldwide, including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some types of cancer." (CDC, 2017)

And also the WHO (World Heath Organization) confirm the above, telling this about obesity, 

"Overweight and obesity are major risk factors for a number of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Once considered a problem only in high income countries, overweight and obesity are now dramatically on the rise in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in urban settings." (WHO, 2018)

So yes, we can say that obesity is an important desease that generates other important illness that are causing millions of deaths every year in different zones of the globe. But, what we can do then? 

Well, there are multiple organizations that give us some advices about how we can prevent and fight this illness. For example, The Health and Medicine Division (HMD), and it's healthcare division developed the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions, they say this about that,

"The Roundtable provides a trusted venue for enhancing and accelerating discussion, development, and implementation of multi-sector collaborations, and policy, environmental, and behavioral initiatives that will increase physical activity; reduce sedentary behavior; and improve the healthfulness of foods and beverages consumed to reduce the prevalence and adverse consequences of obesity and eliminate obesity-related health disparities." (HMD, 2014)

This is an informative video about this organization and its work:

Therefore, I want so emphasize the important of taking care about our physical develope, and our way of feed ourselves. Isn't just to prevent a nad figure because of obesity, it's much bigger than that. Our future health and life is in danger if we are not conscious of this and how we live our day to day. So, this is an advice for you and everyone who read this: Take care about what you eat and everyone you knows, be healthy, do some excercise, and you could live more and happier.