What Are The Reasons Of Getting Weight?

IRREGULAR NUTRITION

Long-term hunger, wrong diets to lose weight, skipping meals, focusing only on calorie calculations and not paying attention to nutritional quality also cause weight gain.

QUALITY OF SLEEP

Studies show that those who sleep less than 6-8 hours a day can control the feeling of hunger more difficultly during the day.
Excess weight can cause weight gain, as sleep apnea also disrupts the current sleep pattern and insomnia affects the human immune system, eating habits, hunger and satiety. It's a complete vicious circle.

GENETICS

There is a risk of being overweight in adulthood in 80% of children whose parents are overweight, in 40% of those whose parents are overweight, and in 10% of those whose parents are of normal weight.

SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE

Body functions slow down in a sedentary life. Muscles and joints lose their former vitality over time. Thus, fat accumulation occurs in the body. Metabolism slows down.
Today, still life has increased with the advancement of technology.

SOME MEDICINES

• Psychiatric-neurological some drugs (second generation antipsychotics such as clozapine, olanzapine, risperidone and quetiapine)
• Depression medications - tricyclic antidepressants (such as imipramine and amitriptyline)
• Beta blocker drugs (such as Atenolol, propanolol)
• Antihistamine drugs used in allergy treatment (such as diphenhydranil, loratidine, cetirizine and cyproheptadine)
• Cortisone

SOME DISEASES

• Hypothyroidism
• Polycystic ovary syndrome
• Sleep apnea
• Endocrine-pancreatic diseases (adrenal adenoma, pituitary adenoma, Cushing etc.)

SOME VITAMIN-MINERAL DEFICIENCIES

The deficiency of components such as Vitamin D-Omega 3 also slows the metabolism and can cause weight gain.

HORMONAL DISORDERS

Insulin elevation, thyroid gland insufficiency, excessive work of the adrenal gland
In reactive hypoglycemia, blood sugar drops rapidly after meals and the desire to eat sugary foods increases.

Women tend to gain weight during menopause. A woman who does not have a weight problem in the normal period may experience weight problems during menopause.

STRESS- PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS

In stressful living conditions, our body takes itself into protection mode and secretes more of the stress hormone we call cortisol. Some of the stress-related illnesses can cause illnesses such as binge eating and night eating syndrome.

OVERWEIGHT IN CHILDHOOD

50% of overweight children between the ages of 3-10 are also overweight in adulthood.

NUTRITION DURING THE BABY PERIOD

Breastfeeding reduces the risk of obesity in later years. Babies who are fed with high carbohydrates such as pudding, have a high risk of having weight problems both in infancy and in adulthood due to infancy.