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Obesity is a chronic disease recently described by the World Health Organization as an epidemic of this century.

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the jobs generally require fewer physical activities, and as for leisure, sports and games that require exercise have been replaced by television and video games.