Obesity - Symptoms

Excessive weight gain and extra fatty tissue are obviously the major signs of obesity. For most people, BMI provides a reasonable estimate of body fat. However, BMI doesn't directly measure body fat, so some people, such as muscular athletes, may have a BMI in the obese category even though they don't have excess body fat. However, excess weight gain in obese people leads to multiple symptoms that manifest gradually over a period of time. As the disease advances, these become more and more prominent:

• Running out of breath - even with minor exertion sometimes
• Lethargy, tiredness
• Difficulty in sleeping and snoring
• Excessive perspiration
• Pain in weight bearing joints like knees, hips and also in the back
• Rashes in the folds of skin such as in the groins, between thighs, axillae, below breasts, etc.
• Depression
• Low self esteem
• Always feeling hot
• Daytime sleepiness
• Many other diseases are associated with obesity and patient may manifest symptoms of these diseases such as - heart disease, hypertension, stroke, cancer, gallbladder disease, type 2 diabetes, etc.