The generalization of overweight, obesity and diabetes among the population has already reached in many developed countries the size of a real pandemic, which in 2025 may affect worldwide to 300 million people, with a high risk of suffering severe vascular disorders.

The problem is much greater in countries like the U.S., where smoking also threatens to collapse the health system unless we take drastic measures to narrow, but the so-called “diabesity” ‘-clever contraction of the words diabetes and obesity-is reached worrying proportions in other developed countries.

The relationship between excess weight and diabetes was one of the main issues discussed during the last congress of the uropean Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) held in the city of Jerusalem. The participants have agreed on linking diabetes with the current sedentary lifestyle and poor diet which encourages overweight, and warned that there will be an escalation in the incidence of both diseases if urgent measures are taken so that society change their behavior.

Excess fat, excess sugar behaves like a true gland attached to the body and dangerous to your health. This is because fat cells secrete molecules that promote insulin resistance, a process that causes blood sugar to rise, along with promoting inflammation, alter immune response and damage the inner lining or endothelium of the blood vessels.

Diabesity sufferers are born with a pancreas that produce insulin in adequate quantity and works well. But due to obesity that insulin than before did its role in the body is now produced in exorbitant amounts, the muscles have to
carry the glucose to fly resistant to this hormone and an increased glucose level blood, in what is called diabetes II.

The continuous action of this explosive cocktail poses serious health consequences in the medium term as it adversely affects cardiovascular function, kidney and eye. The growing number of people who have this double disorder to endocrinologists concerned because diabetes type II only appeared among middle-aged or older, but now an increasing number of cases in all ages and is increasingly being diagnosed in patients younger, especially in children and adolescents overweight and very overweight.

Any person with excessive weight can end up developing diabetes,although there is a type of fat that predisposes them to suffermore type II diabetes: the “central obesity, where fataccumulates more easily around the abdomen and waist andconcentrates around the internal organs.

For many experts the solution to this problem, it can mean for the developed world a similar threat to that posed the infectiousdiseases for the poorest nations, is not dependent on drugs, but to avoid diets loaded with unhealthy fats and sugars and to make physical exercise a duty almost daily.

The Mediterranean diet, with olive oil or nuts, which lowers LDL or “harmful” and raises HDL, or “beneficial”, remains, accordingto experts, the best medicine to prevent obesity-binomialdiabetes.

By contrast, excess fast food or “junk”, and less consumption of fruits and vegetables, favor this disorder.

Men and young women participants had followed since 1985, when they were in fifth grade. The team analyzed the results of interviews conducted when participants were 24, 27 and 30 years to understand the interrelationships between depression, obesity and alcohol abuse.

At age 21, 8 per cent of women and 12 per cent of men had at least two of these three problems. At the time, having more than one of those problems was more common in women but less common in men.

The only relationship observed in the obese men was for 27 years, they were less likely to be depressed at 30. But the 27 depressed women were three times more likely at 30 years to meet the clinical criteria that define alcohol abuse.

Women with alcohol problems at 24 were four times more likely to be obese at age 27, while being obese to 27 doubled the risk of having depression at age 30.

Meanwhile, people of both sexes on low incomes had an increased risk of depression and obesity.

The tendency to have a style for which the person becomes obsessed with playing and negative experiences would be one of the problems attached to alcohol abuse, obesity and depression.

Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksma, a psychologist at Yale, called the “toxic triangle” of “eat, drink and think too much,” they add. She showed that women-and men-with this style are more depressed and more likely to binge drink or food to cope with emotional problems.

There are interventions for the three legs of the toxic triangle, such as exercise, mental training and stress management.

Strategies to treat depression, excessive alcohol consumption and obesity are problems with the “reward system” brain should help people to find alternatives autorrecompensa to food and alcohol.

The increased availability of food, more energy and nutrient content of the body can burn or absorb and sedentary lifestyle are the main causes that have led to increased disease.

Other factors that help this condition are the heritage, the presence of certain disorders or ingestion of certain drugs. There are also some afectana diseases of the thyroid gland or adrenal glands.

Obesity is a disease risk, which can lead to the subject suffering eating disorders such as bulimia medicamentosy taking substances that are harmful to health, as are some anorectics, amphetamines, cocaine and ephedrine .

The main factors that influence obesity are:

* Eating too: In the majority of people who are overweight, this is because they eat too much, either in quantity or variety of food, so they can not spend all the calories they consume the which leads to overweight.

* Lack of exercise: Lack of physical activity and sedentary leisure too, and customs as a general guideline, are those that produce patterns that do not consider exercise. One factor causing this is that the jobs generally require fewer physical activities, and as for leisure, sports and games that require exercise have been replaced by television and video games.

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