Your weight fluctuates naturally throughout the year. Maybe you eat a little too much and gain a bit of weight during the holidays, or you lose a few pounds due to stomach flu. But if you are keep putting on weight and not considering to lose weight in near future, it can harm your health and life. Obesity and overweight may increase the risk of many health issues such as cardiac disorders, diabetes, and cancer. If you are pregnant, excess weight may cause you and your child long-term and short-term health problems. However, these problems do not affect everyone who is obese. The risk increases if you have one of these conditions in the family history. The causes for overweight and obesity are complex to understand. There are many interconnected factors, like lifestyle, genetics, and the use of energy by your body.

The distribution of fat across the body has important consequences for health risks. The fat accumulating on the abdominal and stomach areas is more serious than fat which accumulates around the hips and thighs. Women with waist measurements above 35 inches and men with waist over 40 inches are more vulnerable to higher blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol and coronary-artery disease than those people who are accumulating fat around the hip and thighs.

Here are seven reasons to lose weight immediately:

  1. Heart diseases

Obesity has a significant impact on heart health, causes a series of conditions to develop, including high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke. Patients with excessive weight are at risk of death from a cardiac disease up to 12 years earlier than others. Losing weight and exercise with healthy diet can help restoring the health of the heart.

Excess fat, particularly at your waist, increases the level of triglycerides, poor cholesterol, increase your blood pressure, lowers good cholesterol, and damages your blood vessel– which put you at the risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attack, and stroke.

  1. Cancer

According to the National Cancer Institute, obesity is linked to increased risk of esophageal cancer, endometrium (uterus), breast (postmensopausal), rectum, colon, kidney, thyroid, gallbladder cancer, pancreas, and possibly other cancers.

Overweight or obese women, for example, are four times more susceptible to endometrial cancer. This is just one instance of how weight affects cancer development, which is also effective for breast cancer. Women are especially at risk because their body generates estrogen, a hormone linked to the disease. Patients with healthy weight, recover faster after the treatment of cancer is than obese people.

The World Health Organization estimates that excess weight and physical inactivity are the reasons for cancer between one-fourth and one- third cases worldwide.

  1. Diabetes

One of the most popular comorbidities is type 2 diabetes cause due to obesity. The body can produce plenty of insulin even if body is overweight, but its cells are resistant to the action of insulin. The reasons for this resistance have not been found, but recent studies have shown that the problem is related to stress in the endoplasmic reticulum, a cell membranic system that represses insulin recepter signals, which leads to an increase in insulin resistance. Losing weight can reduce the insulin resistance and control the type 2 diabetes, while the losing weight may also benefit patients who have already suffered from the disease.

In middle-aged women and men who are overweight or obese, the most frequent form of diabetes, type 2, is found, particularly if excessive kilos manifest as belly fat. However, the only adults are not at risk. Overweight teen and children can also become the victim of type 2 diabetes.

  1. Heartburn

Researchers found that GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) has increased almost 50% in last 10 years. The reason of the higher percentage is growth of obesity. Fats due to increased weight put pressure against the lower esophagus. Esophagus sphincter is a closing mechanism between esophagus and stomach. The pressure forces the sphincter to open it more frequently, promoting acidity reflux from the belly to the esophagus for longer periods.

  1. Gestational Diabetes, Infertility, and Birth Defects

Obese women suffer from more complications and problems during their pregnancy such as preeclampsia and gestational diabetes than healthier woman. Due to obesity, birth of unhealthy babies increases. Moreover, obesity can reduce in vitro fertilization (IVF) success rates. Fertility of a man is also affected due to overweight. Obesity is linked to low sperm motility and changed levels of testosterone in men.

  1. Sleep Apnea

Sleep apnea is respiratory disease that is more common in obese people. It changes the sleep pattern and cause to sleep during the day and increase the probability of heart disease and stroke. Losing weight often enhances sleep apnea.

  1. Disability

Wondering how disability is related with obesity? Carrying excess weight increases stress on your skeleton and restricts mobility. According to the study, it is more likely that people with obese suffer from arthritis. Being not able to move frequently, body joints paralyze causing disability in the age of 50.

Conclusion

Disability, Chronic illness, depression and other health problems all contribute to reducing pleasure of life and longevity. Obesity decreases "quality of life" significantly, due to poor health.

And if the health conditions of individuals do not give sufficient reasons to lose weight, consider that obesity can have a huge effect on the pocket. Obesity incur $2,741 more per year than non-obese persons in medical expenses. Obesity actually adds cost to the health more than cigarettes and tobacco.

So it's time to open your eyes if you haven't lose extra pounds. Good health, long life, and emotional well- being are the main reasons to lose weight.