肥胖症的病因與中醫治療

Etiology and Treatment of Obesity with Chinese Medicine

10.6968/TJCCM.200509.0186

陳旺全(Wang-Quan Chen)

肥胖 ； 中醫藥 ； obesity ； Chinese medicinals

台灣中醫臨床醫學雜誌

11卷3期（2005 / 09 / 01）

186 - 190

繁體中文

肥胖在世界各國是最常見的營養問題，在台灣，目前也相當普遍。因此台灣從事美容瘦身的公司，每年的廣告費，可以由數億到數十億。很多證據皆顯示身體質量指數和死亡率呈現「J」型曲線，可見肥胖具有高度的危險。且證據顯示肥胖會增加數種威脅生命的疾病，其中包括第二型糖尿病、心臟血管疾病、膽囊疾病和荷爾蒙敏感及腸胃的癌症。肥胖在非致命的情況下所致的危害性，尚包括背痛、關節炎、不孕症和在很多西化國家所發生較差的精神社交功能。

Obesity is a major nutritional problem in many countries of the world and currently it is also quite prevalent in Taiwan. As a result, advertising costs for companies in the beauty and dieting industry total from one hundred million to many billions of dollars per year. There is much evidence that shows that the body mass index in relation to death rate presents in a J shaped curve. Thus we can see that obesity is highly dangerous to one's health. Furthermore evidence shows that being obese can increase the risk of many life threatening diseases, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, gallbladder diseases, hormone sensitivity and gastrointestinal cancer. Obesity also leads to many non life threatening problems, such as back pain, arthritis and infertility. In many westernized countries people who suffer from obesity may also suffer psychological problems and have difficulties in social interactions.