obesity in Malaysia

According to statistics, Malaysia is the country with the highest percentage of obesity in South East Asia.

Overweight or obesity is a chronic disease that is spreading among the people of the world and Malaysia in particular. New scientific discoveries, obesity is a disease that turns an adverse effect on health and contribute to serious illnesses in people who are prone to obesity, especially heart disease and diabetes.

Risk factors for obesity include:

1. Age
-Increasing age will lead to decreased metabolism. Thus will significantly increase the weight even if there was no change and increase in dietary habits in terms of the number, type and frequency.

2. Gender.
-Women have a greater probability of becoming obese than men. This is because women have a low metabolic rate that is higher than the rate of metabolism in men. The obesity problem will become acute when women reach menopause.

3. Heredity.

4. Physical activity.
-Less physical activity and nutritional care is not a very important factor in the increase in obesity.

5. Psychological factors.
-Many people who overeat when under pressure or have emotional instability.

6. Disease.
-Although infrequent, obesity can occur in patients who have hypothyroidism disease, depression or disease in the brain, causing the patient to overeating.

7. Medications.
-Medications such as steroids or medicine to treat depression may contribute to obesity.

Effects of Obesity
-Obesity contributes to many chronic diseases that can lead to death or morbidity. These diseases can degrade the quality of life for patients. Among the diseases caused by obesity:

1) Diabetes Mellitus
2) Hepatobiliary disease (fatty liver and gallstones)
3) Dyslipidaemia (high cholesterol)
4) Metabolic syndrome
5) Sleep apnea
6) Coronary heart disease
7) Cerebrovascular disease
8) Heart failure
9) High blood pressure (hypertension)
10) Osteoarthritis
11) Gout

Therefore, let us adopt a healthy lifestyle for our future as well. Drinking plain water is 3 liters and also working out two times a week even if I was okay.

And remember what we ate contribute 80% and exercise alone accounted for 20% only.