Estudo de Caso: Automedicação e seus Riscos

Abstract

Brazil ended 2019 with more than a quarter of its adult population in obesity, according to a study published by IBGE (Institute Brazilian Geography and Statistics), with young people aged 20 or over going from 12.2% to 26.8% between 2002/2003 and 2019 (IBGE, 2019). Obesity can be simply defined as a excessive accumulation of body fat, which can cause harm to the physical health, such as cardiovascular diseases, breathing difficulties, increase in blood pressure as much as it can cause harm to health emotional issues related to self-esteem. Identify the etiology of obesity, It's not that simple, according to nutritionist Rachel Pamfilio who works in the United Nations World Food Programme, obesity involves aspects both environmental and emotional as well as genetic (PINHEIRO, 2004). To explain hyperphagia, which is the compulsion to eat, one can differentiate hunger from appetite. The author Hamburger carried out an analysis of the drive of hunger and appetite, saying that hunger is the physiological expression of body's need for energy and appetite is a psychological desire for eating, which gives pleasure. According to him, hunger produces appetite, but appetite it can exist independently and can be stimulated by other means. O It even clarifies the relationship between appetite and emotions.