How Does Maintaining Body Weight Help Prevent Osteoarthritis?

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• Obesity is one of the most crucial problems our
  youth is facing today. Lifestyle, diet,
  workaholism, or environment, whatever may be the
  reason, but being overweight has sure increased
  the number of people suffering from joint-related
  problems around the world.
• Your body weight affects your skeletal joints in
  two ways
• It exerts constant pressure on the weight-bearing
  joints
• Systemic problems associated with weight gain
  affect all the joints

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How does obesity harm the joints?

• Our bones are arranged in a way that provides
  maximum stability even under excessive pressure.
  However, such capabilities come at the risk of
  early wear and tear of the joints.
• Lets consider the knee joint. When you walk
  around, the average pressure exerted on each knee
  joint is one and a half times more than the ideal
  pressure of the bodys weight. This means that
  the knee of a man weighing 100 kgs will
  experience a pressure force equivalent to 150
  kgs.
• This amount of joint wear and tear is bound to
  cause problems like osteoarthritis over time. In
  fact, obesity has been one of the leading causes
  of osteoarthritis in recent years.

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How can this be prevented?

• A good orthopaedic doctor or consultant will help
  you by correlating to the same problem mentioned
  above. It is said that losing the excess kilos
  reduces the pressure exerted on the joints by
  almost four times. Hence, if you lose 10 kgs, the
  stress on your joints will be reduced by an
  equivalent of 40kgs. Reduced pressure means
  prolonged healthy life for joints and reduced
  risks of osteoarthritis.
• Recent studies have shown that inflammation
  caused due to obesity is a crucial factor that
  leads to osteoarthritis and not a cause of it.
  Maintaining a healthy in-weight body helps
  prevent this inflammatory response too.

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  that home remedies arent effective, and youre
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