Obesity is not a disease in itself but it is at the roots of many diseases like high blood pressure. Heart trouble, diabetes, kidney trouble, gout and joint pains, stroke, skin diseases and some of which increase the rate of mortality. The more a person’s weight, the greater is the risk of his early death. When an overweight person dies, the death certificate does not state the cause being overweight. But is a common knowledge that overweight persons are more susceptible to life destroying diseases than those who are not . Obesity is always the contributing cause for such deaths.

Some years back, in Europe & America when the incidence of fatal disease due to overweight was taken into account, the following diseases were found to be causing early death- diabetes, cerebral hemorrhage, all heart disease, gall bladder diseases, cirrhosis of the liver and chronic nephritis.

Danger to vital organ: - Obesity is a disorder, which affect the vital organs of the human body. We shall see how the different organs function & how obesity causes disrepair to them.

Hurt & Lungs: - The heart is a wonderful organ of our body with out which there can be no human life, even during our sleep, it works unceasingly and tirelessly. It supplies blood to the whole body. The heart is helped by the lungs to purify the blood. Lungs too tirelessly go on purifying the blood to be sent back to the heart. Hence any hindrance in the heart’s functions disturbs the lungs too and so is the case the other way round. Any defect setting in, to one of these organs affects the other.