10 Causes Of Excess Weight

1. Decreased smoking

Smoking reduces weight. Smokers are usually tend to be slimmer than non-smokers.

2. Medicine

Different drugs such as contraceptives, some antidepressants, diabetes drugs, steroid hormones, and blood pressure drugs can be the cause of excess weight.

3. Older moms

The older a woman is when she gives birth, the higher her child's risk of obesity.

4. Ancestors' environment

Some influences may go back two generations. Environmental changes that made a grandparent obese may "through a fetally driven positive feedback loop" visit obesity on the grandchildren.

5. Obesity linked to fertility

Obese people are more fertile than lean ones.

6. Unions of obese spouses

Obese women tend to marry obese men. Of course you may not agree with this fact.

7. Population age, ethnicity

Middle-aged people and Hispanic-Americans tend to be more obese than young European-Americans. Americans are getting older and more Hispanic.

8. Air conditioning

You have to burn calories if your environment is too hot or too cold for comfort. But more people than ever live and work in temperature-controlled homes and offices.

9. Pollution

Hormones control body weight. And many of today's pollutants affect our hormones.

10. Sleep debt

Getting too little sleep can increase body weight. This is also caused because of stresses.

These myths and facts about excess weight can be valued to be as raving. It's up to you to decide whether it is truth or not.