3 Impact of Obesity on Bone Health, which is important you know

Obesity can be characterized by a body mass index value greater than 27. In addition to heart and blood vessel disease, the effects of obesity can also spread everywhere. Obesity can also have an impact on bone health conditions, you know. How does obesity affect bone conditions? What are some forms of impact that can occur? This is the explanation.

Obesity can reduce bone density

Research shows that obesity will reduce bone density and increase the risk for fractures. Basically, bones have the ability to always renew themselves. The trick is to destroy bone tissue that has been damaged with osteoclasts, and build new bone tissue with osteoblasts. If the speed of both runs in balance, your bones will always be solid and strong.

However, in obese people, the speed of updating bone tissue is usually not balanced. The speed of building new bone tissue tends to decrease in the obese group. Meanwhile, the process of bone tissue destruction actually increased 3 times faster in the obese group. More destruction processes than formation result in reduced bone density. If the bone density decreases, of course bones are more easily injured or broken.

How big is the impact of obesity on bones?

Osteosarcopenic obesity is a condition of deteriorating bone density and muscle mass as well as being associated with excessive fat accumulation in the body. Generally this occurs in adults and elderly.

According to Dr. Michael Drey, M.Sc. an osteosarcopenia expert, from Medizinische Klinik und Polyclinik IV, at Klinikum der Universitat Munchen, osteosarcopenic obesity is thought to be the most important concern in the future, because there are three health conditions that come together. The three conditions are osteoporosis (loss of bone mass), sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass), and obesity.

Lifestyle changes are one way that can prevent or delay the occurrence of osteosarcopenic obesity so that the weight can be maintained balance and the risk of experiencing problems in the bones and muscles are smaller. There is no specific treatment or medication in this case, other than by maintaining food and exercise intake.
Not only in adults, obesity affects the bone health of children

1. More at risk of fractures and short stature
Just like adults, obese children also have a greater chance of having a broken bone. Reported in News Medical Life Science, children who are obese are more likely to experience frequent fractures on their growth plate. Growth plate is an area of ​​tissue growing at the end of a long bone. This tissue area that produces new bone tissue so that the child's bones can get longer, so the child can get taller. Long bones for example in the legs and arms.

Broken bones in the growth plate make this tissue function is not optimal. This condition certainly interferes with the process of bone lengthening which can result in a child's height being permanently lacking, crooked bones or even arthritis.

2. Flat feet
The impact of obesity also affects the soles of children. Obese children often have flat feet. This condition makes them more easily tired when walking long distances. Children with flat feet should do stretching exercises focused on the tendons in the heel, use special footwear to improve the shape of the foot, and adjust the body weight to reduce the increasingly heavy burden.

3. Impaired developmental coordination
According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, children who are obese often have difficulty in their movements, examples of symptoms such as:

    Children experience problems with gross motor movements such as, jumping movements, standing on one foot
    Problems with fine motor skills such as writing, cutting, tying shoelaces

This condition of impaired development of coordination can interfere or limit the ability of children to exercise. This has the potential to cause the child's weight to gain weight again.