noun
- the state of being grossly fat or overweight.
"the problem of obesity among children"
synonyms: fatness, corpulence,stoutness, fleshiness,heaviness, plumpness,portliness, chubbiness,rotundity, bulkiness,flabbiness, grossness;
The meaning of obesity
obesity
What is obesity ?
Obesity is a serious, chronic disease that can have a negative effect on many systems in your body. People who are overweight or obese have a much greater risk of developing serious conditions, including:
1. Heart disease
A heart attack is the death of a segment of heart muscle caused by a loss of blood supply. The blood is usually cut off when an artery supplying the heart muscle is blocked by a blood clot. If some of the heart muscle dies, a person experiences chest pain and electrical instability of the heart muscle tissue.
2. Type 2 diabetes
Obesity is the major cause of type 2 diabetes. This type of diabetes usually begins in adulthood but, is now actually occurring in children. Obesity can cause resistance to insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar. When obesity causes insulin resistance, the blood sugar becomes elevated. Even moderate obesity dramatically increases the risk of diabetes.
3. Bone and joint disease
Obesity frequently contributes to soft tissue damage which means a progressive wearand-tear disease of the joints. The impact of obesity is especially felt in osteoarthritis of the hip and knee joints. Every pounds of fat in our body will give a presssure on knee joint. Patients also may experienece the following symptoms;
- Shoulder : Lower functional outcomes following rotator cuff injuries and repair. Spine: Higher rates of hardware failure, complications, and infections.
- Hand : A direct decrease in hand grip strength.
- Hip and Knee: Significantly higher rates of complication and hardware failure after total joint arthroplasty (TJA). However, postoperative function greatly improves after surgery in individuals with obesity.
- Foot and Ankle: Excess weight can cause chronic overuse disorders of the foot and ankle like “flat foot,” which can lead to plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis, and foot and ankle pain.
Symptoms of Obesity
The main symptoms of obesity is;
1. Trouble sleeping
2. Sleep apnea (when periodically stop breathing during sleep)
3. Shortness of breath
4. Varicose veins
5. Skin problems caused by moisture that accumulates in the folds of skin)
6. Gallstones
7. Metabolic syndrome
8. Reproductive problems
9. Osteoarthritis in weight-bearing
How to find out your BMI ?
U may use the table below to find out which weight category you are and your Body Mass Index (BMI).
Weight Category
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Body Mass Index (BMI), kg/m2
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Underweight
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< 18.5
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Healthy weight
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18.5 - 24.9
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Overweight
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25.0 - 29.9
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Obese
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> 30
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Obese class I
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30.0 - 34.9
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Obese class II
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35.0 - 39.9
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Obese class III
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> 40
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What cause obesity?
How do people start to gain weight?
The common reason would be ;
i. Lack of exercise
- Nowadays, people neither go to the gym nor for jogging because they’re too busy with their work. People couldn't go the gym because they're a lack of time.
- If people are not very active with their physical activities , the calories in their body will not burn. With a sedentary lifestyle, they can easily take in more calories in their diet every day than they can burn it and use through exercise and normal daily activities.
ii. Lack of health consciousness
- Nowadays, people are lack of health conscious because they love to eat and drink too much sugar rich stuff.
- They also tend to choose fast food such as MCD, Pizza Hut, KFC, Domino’s Pizza, Maggie and so on.
iii.Unhealthy diet and eating habits
- Weight gain is inevitable if people whom regularly eat more calories than they burn.
- Some types of foods are more likely to lead to weight gain.
- Foods that tend to increase the risk of weight gain include;
a. Fried foods, such as french fries
b. Fatty and processed meats
c. Many dairy products
d. Sweetened juices, sodas, and alcoholic drinks
e. Processed, high-carb foods, such as bread
- Eating too much of these foods and doing too little exercise can result in weight gain and obesity.
Effects of Obesity
1. High blood pressure :
2. Diabetes :
3. Cancer:
High blood pressure, obesity of metabolic diabetes syndrome is intertwined in the syndrome. The cause of the cause is high high insulin on metabolic syndrome. Impact of insulin resistance also produces high triglyceride (TG) fat and low fat High-density lipid (HDL). High blood pressure may occur when the arterial wall wall is due to plaque plaque from the iatero fat arteriosclerosis.
High sugar and carbohydrate content increases the level of sugar and hormone insulin in the blood. If more sugar is consumed, more insulin will be stressed to stabilize the sugar level. Over time, this sugar level will become unstable. Someone will be lethargic, lacking energy and always love sweet foods to increase energy. Finally, weight gain goes up to the occurrence of obesity that brings various illnesses.
3. Cancer:
Obesity groups have a higher risk of various cancers such as cancerous lymph nodes, uterine lining, colon, gall bladder, prostate, kidney and postmenopausal, and breast cancer.
4. Heart disease :
There are facts that show that obesity can cause thickening of the left ventricular wall of the heart (left ventricular hypertrophy / LVH). Thickening of this wall over time will trigger problems in the heart. Obesity is also associated with metabolic syndrome X, a metabolic disorder that can cause serious lipid (fat cell) abnormalities. Fat cells have unique features, these cells will collect large amounts of fat molecules so that they make the surface area of the arteries and veins narrower. As a result, blood flow to and from the heart will decrease which makes the organ work harder to pump blood throughout the body. This condition triggers a fatal condition called a heart attack.
How to prevent Obesity?
An increasing number of Malaysians are becoming overweight, which can lead to many serious health problems, even premature death. Here we list some of helpful ideas which can help you to prevent from obese.
I. Follow a healthy eating habits and healthy diet foods
What to eat and how ?
- Eat more fruits and vegetables,nuts, seeds, beans
- Use plant oils such as olive and other vegetable-based oils
- Eat healthful sources of protein such as fish and poultry
- Eat whole grains (whole wheat, steel cut oats and brown rice which is healthy.
- Drink water or other beverages that are naturally calorie-free such as sugar sweetened beverages (soda, fruit, drinks, sport drinks)
- Drink fruit juice (not more than a small amount per day)
II. Stay active
How ?
- By doing exercise at least 30 minutes a day
- Exercising help to keep you and your heart healthy
- Rather than doing exercise, going for a jogging and gym help us maintain our body
- Also, moderate intense physical activities include fast walking, swimming, cleaning house and bicycling
III. Regular health check up
How?
By consulting a doctor regulary
- Besides eating healthy foods and balancing diet we also should keeping weigt in check by go for a check up regularly.
- This may help you to identify any early signs of health issues
- Finding problems early means that your improvements for effective treatment increase
- Purpose of the visit is to maintain a healthy lifestlye.
IV. Get enough sleep
Latest News About Obesity
Hey Guys! Here's few latest news about obesity case in Malaysia.
Check it out the slideshow. 👇
Hey Guys! Here's few latest news about obesity case in Malaysia.
Check it out the slideshow. 👇
https://drive.wps.com/docs/1XUO1kPDU
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Review about Latest news
Here are some of the reviews that we've made on health issues which is obese.
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Based on the news that has been issued on KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 30 - The 2018. Malaysia’s malnutrition paradox: While kids stunted, adults growing (sideways).
Malaysia is the only Southeast Asian country in the “triple burden” list that is dominated by African countries. The latest United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund’s (Unicef) data in 2016 showed that more than one in five of Malaysian children under five are stunted, or at 20.7 per cent. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines stunting as “a form of growth failure which develops over a long period of time in children under five years of age when growing with limited access to food, health and care”. Malaysia’s National Health and Morbidity Survey 2016 had previously found that 28 per cent of children below two in Putrajaya, the nation’s administrative capital, suffer from stunting.
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Based on the news that has been issued on KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29, 2018. Drop 'so what' attitude and reduce weight, Malaysians urged.
Obesity is a leading preventable cause of death worldwide, with increasing rates in adults and children. As we all know, obesity is mostly preventable through a combination of social changes and personal choices. According to the news attached above, the issue discussed is obesity. The case of obesity is increasing today. This happens because of the attitude of indifference to some who do not care about their health problems. As we all know, many people dying just because obesity. Most common factor that leads to obesity is negligence. Deputy Health Minister Lee Boon Chye has stated that, apathetic attitude of certain individual on their health problems which lead the individual to death. Deputy Health Minister Lee Bon Chye has also stated that the human attitude whom often uses "So what", to remove their attitude “so what” and concern about health problems can reduce the health issue of obesity among Malaysians. He also states that if someone who is obese, they are also exposed to heart disease, diabetes, stork, apnoea and so on. He also stated that obesity is not just an appearance it will also have an adverse effect on the health of people who are obese. He also hoped that Malaysia would use (Suku Suku Separuh) which would mean a quarter of carbohydrates, proteins, vegetables, fruits and others. It is also a practice that can be done in the community to make a good impact.
STATISTICS
Malaysia has now become one of the countries with the highest prevalence of obesity in Asia. Obesity has reached alarming level in the Asean Economic Community and especially in Malaysia where 44.2% of the population are overweight.
According to the Malaysian Health Ministry, one in six Malaysians are either overweight or obese. A recent study showed that 22% of Malaysians above the age of 30 were also diabetic patients. The daily sugar intake among Malaysians was too high, at 51 grammes, which is among the World Health Organisation reccommendation of 50 grammes. Interestingly, university studies revealed that women in Malaysia were satistically more obese than men, with a higher rate among Indian and Malay women compared to Chinese women.
According to WHO statistics, Thailand has the second largest number of obese people in Southeast Asia despite the traditional and generally healthy diet of rice, chicken, fish and vegetables in the country. This food mix has not disappeared but is seriously threatened by the availability of snacks and convenience food. It should also be noted that Thais, along with other Asian nations, prefer higher calory white rice as opposed to the more healthy brown types.
China is home to more than 300 million-plus people with weight problems and recent studies indicate that the problem is especially prevalent among youth. In 2005, there were 18 million in China who were considered obese. In 2011, that number jumped to 100 million. In this regard, Vietnam is catching up with China. While 28% of rural children suffer from malnutrition, according to the country’s National Institute of Nutrition, 20% from urban areas suffer from the opposite, obesity.
Based on the pie chart above, there are 57% that is equal to 16.45 million malaysians are in the normal state according to their BMI statement. Meanwhile, 29% that is 8.4 million malaysians are in overweight state and 14% that is 4 million malaysians are in obese state.
Overall overweight and obesity by age categories
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