Obesity is a state of excess adipose tissue mass. An unhealthy accumulation of body fat is called as obesity. Obesity is often expressed in terms of body mass index (BMI). A BMI of 30 or more in males and females indicates obesity. It is also defined as an abnormal growth of the adipose tissues due to enlargement of fat cell size (hypertrophic obesity) or an increase in fat cell number (hyper plastic obesity) or a combination of both. In scientific terms, obesity occurs when a person consumes more calories than he or she burns. That causes this imbalance between calories in and calories out.

Causative factors:

• Environmental factors: Environment strongly influences obesity. This includes life style behaviors such as what a person eats or drinks and his or her level of physical activity.
• Psychological factors: Psychological factors may also influence eating habits. Many people eat in response to negative emotions. Such as boredom, sadness and anger are some important factors.

Weight gain is a biggest issue in today's era. Obesity never gives us charming look with healthy life. Everyone wants to live longer and healthier which is not possible if you are obese. Obesity disturbs socio-economic status of person. Obesity brought several diseases along with weight gain. It troubles but to overcome this it requires strong wheel power in patient. It requires positive approach, which definitely gives us relief from this condition. Patience in patient is also most important part to get rid of this kind of situation.

Our solution for Obesity:

• Ayurved has several treatment modalities
  
• Ayurvedic medicines help to control the weight.
  
• Panchakarma will give quick results in weight gain conditions.
  
• Vaman in some cases, virechan and Basti in most of the cases definitely give results.
  
• Along with that powder massage, steam and other modalities surely give benefits to the patient.
  
• Panchakarma modalities which are useful in these conditions are Udavartanam (Powder Massage), Massage, Steam, Vaman, Virechan, Lekhan Basti, Kshara Basti etc.
  
• Suggestions for particular diet, lifestyle modifications, exercise, yoga etc.