What's Worse for Your Health - Smoking or Being Overweight

The above question might as well be, "What is worse for your health? Playing with fire or working with fire?" No doubt, in time, someone's going to get burned.

How Obesity Affects the Body:

The skeletal frame of the body was built to accommodate a certain amount of weight. The frame of the body is a bit like an elevator. An elevator can only hold so much weight before it becomes stressed and can no longer sustain the weight. The body works in the same manner. Too much weight on the frame, and the results of strain and stress on the skeletal system can be mirrored by problems that announce themselves throughout the body.

Pain may occur through a backache, a tummy ache, knee aches, leg aches or shoulder aches.

The additional weight also plays havoc with the internal organs, as they were built to accommodate a certain amount of weight. The added weight puts a strain on the muscles - particularly the heart and circulatory system as it must now work harder to pump the blood throughout the body.

How Smoking Affects the Body.

The body was built to breathe air so smoking, even though addictive, is very harsh on the body - the lungs in particular. Keep in mind that the lungs go hand in hand with the heart and kidneys to keep the body in tip-top shape. When the lungs are damaged, it places stress on the heart. When the heart is stressed, it places stress on the kidneys. It's like a chain reaction, much like chain smoking.

Because smoking is so addictive, the smoker may not even realize how the smoke is effecting their body. They may not place that cough as a sign that the lungs are in trouble. They may simply nod it off as 'smoker's cough'.

So what is worse, smoking or being overweight?

Although both aren't exactly friends of Health, smoking is generally much harder on the body and may do irreversible damage.

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