Overweight and obesity lead to serious health consequences. Risk increases progressively as BMI increases. Raised body mass index is a major risk factor for chronic diseases such as:
- Cardiovascular disease (mainly heart disease and stroke) - already the world's number one cause of death, killing 17 million people each year.
- Diabetes – which has rapidly become a global epidemic. WHO projects that diabetes deaths will increase by more than 50% worldwide in the next 10 years.
- Musculoskeletal disorders – especially osteoarthritis.
- Some cancers (endometrial, breast, and colon).
Childhood obesity is associated with a higher chance of premature death and disability in adulthood.
Many low- and middle-income countries are now facing a "double burden" of disease:
- While they continue to deal with the problems of infectious disease and under-nutrition, at the same time they are experiencing a rapid upsurge in chronic disease risk factors such as obesity and overweight, particularly in urban settings.
- It is not uncommon to find under-nutrition and obesity existing side-by-side within the same country, the same community and even within the same household.
- This double burden is caused by inadequate pre-natal, infant and young child nutrition followed by exposure to high-fat, energy-dense, micronutrient-poor foods and lack of physical activity.
This information is copy from World Health Organization (WHO).Mortality of obesity was very terrible. However, this information can increase public awareness to take care their health?
ReplyDeletei agree with this statement because nowaday i see the trend and epidemic obesity are increasing.
ReplyDeleteSo what can we do to improve public awareness about obesity with effective?
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Friends let us thing about some effective ways ?
healthy camping is very good to improve public awareness about obesty example in telivision or other. i think some effective way is actually from themselves.we should care and realize about important to care our healthy.
ReplyDeleteObesity problem actually occurred due to the unhealthy way life not keep eating like everyday. High intake of fatty foods and too sweet can lead to obesity problems. How to cook as frying can also be contributing to the accumulation of fat in the body. To avoid obesity arising from this problem, we should eat more vegetables, fruits and protein sources such as fish. We must also reduce the use of oil for frying food and cooking by steaming, baking or boiling.
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