Obesity

Obesity is a complex disease involving an excessive amount of body fat. It is a medical problem that increases the risk of other diseases and health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and certain cancers.

How is obesity diagnosed?

• Medical History.
• Physical Examination.
• Calculating BMI
• Measuring waist circumference
• Blood Tests

Symptoms

For most people, obesity becomes a lifelong struggle. The need to manage obesity is clear as obesity increases the risk of many other diseases and health problems like

• Increased Sweating
• Snoring
• Shortness of breath
• Inability to cope up with sudden physical activity.
• Back and Joint pains
• Feeling isolated
• Low self-esteem and underconfident.
• Fatigue

Causes

It is a complex disease that doesn’t only involve putting on weight, there are other problems that become the cause of it. The main causes of obesity are:

• Hormonal Imbalance
• Genetics
• Physical
• Enviornment

Common specific causes of obesity include:

Physical

• Genes– Your genes may play a role in efficiency of metabolism and storage and distribution of body fat.
• Family lifestyle: Obesity tends to run in families. This is caused both by genes and by shared diet and lifestyle habits. If one of your parents is obese, you have a higher risk of being obese.
• Environmental factors: The most important environmental factor is lifestyle. The eating habits and activity level are partly learned from the people around them. Overeating and sedentary habits (inactivity) are the most important risk factors for obesity.
• Age: People tend to lose muscle and gain fat as they age. Their metabolism also slows somewhat. Both of these lower their calorie requirements.
• Pregnancy: Women tend to weigh an average of 4-6 pounds more after a pregnancy than they did before the pregnancy. This can compound with each pregnancy.

Medical

• Cushing Syndrome: a condition caused by having an excessive amount of the hormone cortisol in your system.
• Depression
• Certain medications (examples are steroids, antidepressants, birth control pills)
• Prader-Willi syndrome: a rare condition that an individual is born with which causes excessive hunger
• Obesity can be associated with other eating disorders, such as binge eating or bulimia.
• Polycystic ovarian syndrome(PCOS): a condition that causes an imbalance of female reproductive hormones
• Not sleeping enough, which can lead to hormonal changes that make you feel hungrier and crave certain high-calorie foods
• Thyroid disease
• Enlargement of liver and spleen
• Constipation
• Mental illness
• Asthma
• Diseases related to digestive and reproductive organs.
• Urological diseases.

Complications

• Heart disease and strokes. Obesity makes a person more likely to have high blood pressure and abnormal cholesterol levels, which are risk factors for heart disease and strokes.
• Type 2 diabetes. Obesity can affect the way, body uses insulin to control blood sugar levels. This raises the risk of insulin resistance and diabetes.
• Certain cancers. Obesity may increase risk of cancer of the uterus, cervix, endometrium, ovary, breast, colon, rectum, esophagus, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, kidney and prostate.
• Digestive problems. Obesity increases the likelihood that one will develop heartburn, gallbladder disease and liver problems.
• Gynecological and sexual problems. Obesity may cause infertility and irregular periods in women. Obesity also can cause erectile dysfunction in men.
• Sleep apnea. People with obesity are more likely to have sleep apnea, a potentially serious disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep.
• Osteoarthritis. Obesity increases the stress placed on weight-bearing joints, in addition to promoting inflammation within the body. These factors may lead to complications such as osteoarthritis.

Naturopathy Treatment

• Mud pack
• Enema
• Steam bath
• Spine bath
•  Hot foot bath
• Alternate fomentation of stomach , liver and kidney.
• Whole body wet sheet pack
• Alternate hip bath
• Massage
• Full body mud pack.

Key Notes

• Treatment is not targeted to only loosing weight .
• When clinical blood reports, ultrasound reports, MRI and ECG reports come out normal, then only loosing weight is targeted.
• Patients require a proper treatment and not weight loosing packages. And it takes time to loose weight.
• Obesity due to water retention, genes, accident and mental trauma takes much more time to loose weight.

Yoga

1. All sukshma vyayam
2. Sitting posture asanas
   • Nauka chalan
   • Chakki chalan
   • Pashchimottanasan
   • Meru vakrasan
3. Vajrasan samooh
   • Vajrasan
   • Shashank asan
   • Mandook asan
   • Marjari asan
   • Ardhaushtrasan
4. Asans laying on back
   • Pad sanchalan
   • Pawan muktasan
   • Setubandh asan
   • Suptaudrakarshan asan
   • Sui dhaga asan
   • Viparit karni.
5. Asanas laying on stomach
   • Makrasan
   • Bhujangasan
   • Tiryak bhujangasan
   • Dhanurasan
6. Standing asanas
   • Tadasan
   • Tiryak tadasan
   • Katichakrasan
   • Vrikshasan
   • Tulasan
   • Trikonasan
7. Suryanamaskar completing with shithalikaran.
8. Pranayam
   • Nadi shodhan
   • Bhastrika
   • Anulom vilom
   • Kapalbhati
   • Shitali
   • Shitkari
   • Bhramari
   • Completing with pranav ka dhyan.
9. Bandh
   • Tribandh
10. Mudras
    • Gyana mudra
    • Apana mudra
    • Prana mudra
    • Vayu mudra
    • Surya mudra
    • Varun mudra

Key Notes

1. Patient should always take care of its own capacity. Capacity of movement, holding the posture and capacity of repeatation
2. Always take care of heart beat while doing yoga it should be normal not so fast.
3. Yoga should be done with full consciousness on inner body and breathing, to get faster and positive results.
4. Yoga doesn’t have any negative effect but it is  necessary to make a proper yoga chart for a speedy recovery.
5. Sukshma vyayam, mudra and shithalikaran is equally necessary and beneficial so it shouldn’t  skipped.

Diet

First three weeks

The patient should take food which is easily digestible. The patient should be on liquids for atleast 3 weeks, if the condition is very serious.

After three weeks

• In morning: 6am to7am
  • 10 pieces- Raisins, 2 pieces- Dates, Anjeer (soaked in water and grinded to make a solution).
• At 9am
  • One bowl of Daliya ( liquid)
  • One bowl of mix vegetables soup.
  • One Pulpy fruit
• 12 pm
  • One tablespoon of curd mixed with a glass of water
• 1.30 pm to 2 pm
  • Boiled Vegetable, soupy brown rice and one bowl of minutely chopped salad.
• 4pm
  • A glass of citrus juice. Sweet lime juice is always the best .
• 7pm to 8pm
  • One Pulpy fruit ( mango is best in other season, chikoo or papaya or other pulpy fruit can be taken).
  • Before bed, take a cup of warm water and a one inch piece of jaggery.

Do’s and Don’ts

Say Yes to:

1. Wake up before sunrise.
2. Take proper rest.
3. Pray and have positive and generous thoughts.
4. Take pure natural satwik food.
5. Milk, butter milk, sprouts, fox nuts dates, raisins, fig, honey, jaggery, and sweet pulpy fruits.
6. Fruit juice and vegetable’s soup.

Say NO to:

• Dairy products
• Bakery items
• Processed Food.
• Food that contains excessive of roughage, white rice, tea, coffee, pickles and watermelon.
• Ginger, Black pepper and Red chilly.
• Avoid to eat without hunger and over eating.

All the information available on this website is for education and awareness purposes only. Follow these practices only under the guidance of a trained Yoga and Naturopathy practitioner. Punam Agarwal and her Yoga and Naturopathy initiatives are not liable for any injuries caused during the process.