Obesity is a nutritional disorder that takes place due to an unhealthy lifestyle and unhygienic food. An excessive weight that gets accumulated in a human body is often referred to as obesity. When you eat fat-enriched food, fried food, junk food, etc. your body tends to accumulate excessive fat. And of course, a sedentary lifestyle helps your body accumulate excessive fat and causes obesity.

Obesity is itself a disease and tends to disturb various metabolic structures in your body. It causes diseases like diabetes, hypertension, irregular digestion, cardiovascular diseases and many more in the list. It makes your life complicated and thus impacts your social life too. Obesity can be a serious concern for anyone as it is a root cause of other health diseases. Based on Body Mass Index (BMI), one can determine obesity. It can also be determined based on fat distribution.

According to Ayurveda, obesity occurs when an excessive Meda accumulates in excess quantity leads to flabbiness of the abdomen, hips, and breast. It is also one of Santarpanottha Vikaras. As majority of the aahara taken converts into medas all the other dhatu’s like ashti, maamsa, raktha are reduced in the body because of which an individual looks very obese but is weak in strength. Disorders of fat metabolism known as Medodushti in ayurveda is known to cause breathing issues as well. Athisthoulya is considered as one of the dangerous disease and considered to be ninditha for treatment.It is believed that if not treated right way it can be mother of all other diseases.