Obesity is an epidemic in nearly every country in the world. The most likely explanation for the spread of this health problem is substantial lifestyle changes—from more reliance on automobiles and less on everyday physical activity, to the increasing availability of processed foods.
For the first time in human history, the number of overweight people rivals the number of underweight people.While the world’s underfed population has declined slightly since 1980 to 1.1 billion, the number of overweight people has surged to 1.1 billion.
The population of overweight people has expanded rapidly in recent decades, more than offsetting the health gains from the modest decline in hunger. In the United States, 55 percent of adults are overweight by international standards. A whopping 23 percent of American adults are considered obese. And the trend is spreading to children as well, with one in five American kids now classified as overweight.Obesity cost the United States 12 percent of the national health care budget in the late 1990s, $118 billion, more than double the $47 billion attributable to smoking.
Overweight and obesity are advancing rapidly in the developing world as well. While 80 percent of the world’s hungry children live in countries with food surpluses.
Technofixes like liposuction or olestra attract more attention than the behavioral patterns like poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyles that underlie obesity. Liposuction is now the leading form of cosmetic surgery in the United States, for example, at 400,000 operations per year. While billions are spent on gimmicky diets and food advertising, far too little money is spent on nutrition education.
The population of overweight people has expanded rapidly in recent decades, more than offsetting the health gains from the modest decline in hunger. In the United States, 55 percent of adults are overweight by international standards. A whopping 23 percent of American adults are considered obese. And the trend is spreading to children as well, with one in five American kids now classified as overweight.Obesity cost the United States 12 percent of the national health care budget in the late 1990s, $118 billion, more than double the $47 billion attributable to smoking.
Overweight and obesity are advancing rapidly in the developing world as well. While 80 percent of the world’s hungry children live in countries with food surpluses.
Technofixes like liposuction or olestra attract more attention than the behavioral patterns like poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyles that underlie obesity. Liposuction is now the leading form of cosmetic surgery in the United States, for example, at 400,000 operations per year. While billions are spent on gimmicky diets and food advertising, far too little money is spent on nutrition education.
Obesity is the most common form of malnutrition in the western world. Its the second leading preventable cause of death in north America. Being overweight can lead to high blood pressure and related complications such as blood vessels damaged, of arteriosclerosis, heart attack, kidney failure and stroke. One has to understand that medical intervention including surgery are not the cure for obesity. People who run for work, extremely busy and have no time to fix their meals usually find relief in fast food joints. But does frequent eating of hamburger or fries is really good for our health? Nutritional experts are unanimous that it’s not really that healthy. It’s okay if it is consumed once a month but on a regular basis it’s unsafe to your health. Moreover, obese persons should shun instant foods as they contain a high amount of salt and chemical preservatives adding more risk to the development of excess fat which is detrimental to your health.
Unfortunately, the conservative management of morbid obesity - diet, exercise, drugs, behavioral modifications, etc. - has been found to be ineffective in the long term. More than ninety five percent of subjects regain their lost weight within a few years after conservative treatment. Fat reduction techniques or any weight loss regimen maybe an easy option to some individuals, but this will be useless if the person concern will not exert efforts to curb the return of fat. One has to engage in physical activities, avoid in sedentary lifestyle as much as possible and eat healthy food in order to prevent fat from coming back. Experts recommend that we should walk at least four hundred meters a day. An hour walk burns 113 to 226k/cal. If you don’t walk you save 800 to 6,000k/cal, this equivalent to 0.4 to 0.8 body fat every year. People with sedentary lifestyle gains two pounds each year.
Children who do nothing but play video games and watch TV are not saved for this. Medical experts advised that it is important to subscribe to a healthy lifestyle in order to regulate obesity which brings not only emotional burden but also medical complications as well. ” In the past we look at obesity as an aesthetic problem, now it is linked to medical problems” as one medical expert has noted.
Unfortunately, the conservative management of morbid obesity - diet, exercise, drugs, behavioral modifications, etc. - has been found to be ineffective in the long term. More than ninety five percent of subjects regain their lost weight within a few years after conservative treatment. Fat reduction techniques or any weight loss regimen maybe an easy option to some individuals, but this will be useless if the person concern will not exert efforts to curb the return of fat. One has to engage in physical activities, avoid in sedentary lifestyle as much as possible and eat healthy food in order to prevent fat from coming back. Experts recommend that we should walk at least four hundred meters a day. An hour walk burns 113 to 226k/cal. If you don’t walk you save 800 to 6,000k/cal, this equivalent to 0.4 to 0.8 body fat every year. People with sedentary lifestyle gains two pounds each year.
Children who do nothing but play video games and watch TV are not saved for this. Medical experts advised that it is important to subscribe to a healthy lifestyle in order to regulate obesity which brings not only emotional burden but also medical complications as well. ” In the past we look at obesity as an aesthetic problem, now it is linked to medical problems” as one medical expert has noted.
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