2006-12-01 01:19:22 · 11 answers · asked by jack1939 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
of course. there is a larger layer of fat and weight over the lungs making it more difficult to breath. along with the added weight and work on the body and increased oxygen needs.
2006-12-01 01:21:06 · answer #1 · answered by kirsten j 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, obesity affects breathing! Your heart has to work extra hard to pump blood through the lungs in order provide the added mass with oxygen. You are carrying at least 25-30% more weight than is normal for your body. Imagine a 100-lb person walking around with a 25-pound weight all day. They would be out of breath, too!
2006-12-01 01:54:49 · answer #2 · answered by shanequinox 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think so. Many obese people have sleep apneia, which means that while they are sleeping they stop bretahing for a peirod of time, some have it so bad that they have to be put on breathilizers when they sleep. Also many obese people have asthma.
2006-12-01 01:22:30 · answer #3 · answered by tpsvfamily 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a syndrome for very obese people, the Pickwician syndrome that frequenly causes death due the pushing up of the diaphragm.
2006-12-01 01:23:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
weight problems is undesirable information for the two physique and strategies. no longer purely does it make a man or woman experience drained and uncomfortable, it could positioned on down joints and positioned extra effective rigidity on different factors of the physique. whilst a man or woman is carrying extra effective weight, it particularly is harder to maintain up with acquaintances, play activities, or merely walk between training in college. it is likewise linked with respiratory issues including allergies and sleep apnea and problems with hips and knee joints which will require surgical treatment. There would be extra severe effects besides. weight problems in youngsters would reason ailments that as quickly as have been theory to be issues purely for adults, including high blood pressure (extreme blood rigidity), extreme ldl cholesterol stages, liver ailment, and variety 2 diabetes, a ailment wherein the physique has worry changing nutrients to power, ensuing in extreme blood sugar stages. As they grow old, people who're obese are extra in all hazard to enhance heart ailment, congestive heart failure, bladder issues, and, in women human beings, problems with the reproductive device. weight problems additionally may finally end up in stroke, extra effective hazard for specific cancers including breast or colon maximum cancers, or maybe dying. to boot to different skill issues, people who're obese are extra in all hazard to be depressed. which could start up a vicious cycle: whilst each and every physique is obese, they might experience unhappy or maybe indignant and consume to make themselves experience extra effective. Then they experience worse for eating back. And whilst somebody's feeling depressed, that man or woman is far less in all hazard to bypass out and workout.
2016-10-04 14:28:00 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Sleep Apnea.
All that weight on the lungs isn't good. Also, obseity has a propensity to enlarge your heart...which affects EVERYTHING....
Yea.
2006-12-01 01:21:56 · answer #6 · answered by Thera 9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes yes yes. The heavier you are the harder your heart has to work to pump blood, so all your organs have a strain on them, which in turn makes it harder to breathe properly.
2006-12-01 01:23:07 · answer #7 · answered by gypsy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
def! I see it in my bf's father. He is constantly out of breath and very overweight
2006-12-01 01:21:55 · answer #8 · answered by cmp8423 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely. obese folks have difficulty breathing.
you can even hear it, even in kids.
2006-12-01 01:26:24 · answer #9 · answered by Sufi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good god man...go run around the block before they find you dead underneath a package of twinkies.
2006-12-01 03:29:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋