by The Studio of Mental Health and Psychology
An unhealthy lifestyle, diet and insufficient physical activity are key factors in the global population’s increasing vulnerability to obesity. The obese body abnormally accumulates adipose tissues, including white adipose tissue (WAT), which aberrantly generates and secretes adipokines (substances that exert autocrine, paracrine or endocrine effects on processes in the central nervous system and periphery), causing dysregulation of homeostatic systems.
This leads to an elevated risk for comorbidities such as insulin resistance and type-2 diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases, along with mood disorders, such as major depressive and bipolar disorder and cognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
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