If you carry some or more extra weight, it may be harmful to the kidneys to function properly, and it may lead to many diseases, including kidney disease. Maintaining a healthy weight is very important for the body to work efficiently. If a person is obese or overweight, it may increase the risk of escalating Kidney disease. As everybody knows, the increase in weight of the body increases the risk of diabetes, and it may also shoot up the blood pressure. In fact, as per the various researches, the study reveals that diabetes and high BP are the main cause of kidney failure.
If the body has some extra weight, it will force the kidney to work more, and this will enable the kidney to function hard, and then it will cause the kidney to filter more wastes than the desired level. Gradually, this may lead to kidney disease over a long period. It is as simple as if your weight is more than the desired level, and the kidney has to function harder to keep the body alive.
It can also raise a person’s risk of heart disease, stroke, and some malignancies and negatively affect their quality of life and psychological well-being.
How obesity affects kidney disease patient?
So, have you ever thought of minimizing the weight to prevent kidney and health? Here, we will discuss ways to reduce kidney disease risk if you are diagnosed as obese or fat.
- Diagnosis – Test your Body Mass Index (BMI). A value between 18 and 25 is considered normal. The value between 25 and 30 is categorized in the overweight category. A value greater than 30 is alerting, and it will come in the obese category. There may be a case when a person has a higher weight than others, but the BMI will be lower than the other person because the person may have less body fat than the other. To maintain body weight, a person needs to consume more fruits and vegetables and avoid junk foods.
- Healthy Lifestyle – Change in the lifestyle like making a habit of regular and timely exercise, walking frequently, drinking water, and avoiding longer bed comfort.
- No negligence – If you feel any symptom of kidney disease, immediately Lab test for your kidney function, it is a simple process because it needs only blood and urine test.
- No to High Carbs – Avoid eating high carbs and a high-sugar diet to control the level of blood sugar. A high level of blood sugar is also called hyperglycemia. A high diabetic patient must cut down on such foods completely.
- Stress and anxiety – are also factors contributing to increased blood pressure. Try to avoid any such disturbing factors from your life that may cause stress and that eventually will result in high BP.
Causes –
- If a person consumes more calories from junk food and soda drinks but doesn’t burn them through physical activities, the extra energy stored will be counted in body fat.
- The modern lifestyle involves eating many processed foods that are usually high in calories.
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- Proteinuria (protein leakage in the urine) results from injured glomeruli. Nephrotic syndrome can develop if the protein leak is substantial.
- Blood in the urine (haematuria) and elevated blood pressure are signs of kidney impairment.
Conclusion – Obesity is a serious problem in India and is also prevalent worldwide that affects millions of people. According to WHO, the rate of obesity has almost tripled in the last four decades. More than 50% of the adults worldwide are overweight or obese. The most alarming thing here is that India ranks 3rd in the countries with the highest number of obese people as per the recent studies and WHO data. So it is necessary to take obesity as a serious concern for the well-being of life.