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The study showed that people of black ethnicity are more likely to go on with their lives without having to have their obesity checked and put under control. People who suffer from chronic pain can turn to eating as a comforting way of alleviating the suffering, eating being a good stimulant for rest which we all experience after meals. The situation can also be the other way around with obesity contributing to the pain that is being suffered which without proper diagnosis and treatment only aggravates the situation further. Obesity and chronic pain being linked is a convergence of two of America’s most prolific diseases and each other being contributory to the other offers a good way to properly approach both of their debilitating effects.
Obesity degrades ones quality of life as well as inviting sickness in many possible ways. One way of determining obesity is to determine the person’s BMI or Body mass Index which needs to have the height and weight compared with established levels. Obtaining the BMI is an effective way to determine the overall health of a person with obesity and chronic pain both reaching epidemic levels.