Mental Disorders and Fatness

Studies have shown a strong connection between common mental disorder and obesity. It is suggested that people with repeated episodes of common mental disorder are particularly at risk of following obesity. There are several possible reasons or explanations for the finding that importunate common mental illness and emotional problems like anxiety, depression, stress, and fear are the risk factors for obesity.


In a prospective followers study with four measures of common mental disorders and obesity over 19 years conducted at the civil service department in London it was concluded that in the British adults common mental disorders lead to an augmented risk of obesity. The association was found to be cumulative such that the people with chronic or repeat episodes of common mental disorder are particularly at the jeopardy of weight gain.