Obesity

What is obesity? According to the dictionary, obesity is a medical condition in which body
fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced
life expectancy and increased health problems. The National Health and Morbidity Survey
indicated that 43% of the adults were obese in 2006.The surveys carried out by the scientists in
America shown that obesity would cause other serious illnesses such as hypertension, high
cholesterol level, stroke, and diabetes and so on. There are many factors which caused obesity to
spread continuously in all countries and the corrective actions should be taken to overcome the
problem.

First and foremost, developing an unhealthy diet is the main cause of obesity. As all
people living in hectic lifestyles, they do not have sufficient time to prepare proper meals. Many
mothers chose to eat-out instead of cooking at home. Many families are now been able to afford
the high expense of having meals at outside. Some of the children are given a generous amount
of money from their parents to eat. When they are given such freedom to choose food, they
would naturally prefer to eat and fast foods like burgers, pizzas, french-fries, nuggets and fried
chickens. This situation would lead to obesity as the little importance is placed on serving a
balanced diet.

Secondly, the lack of participation in sports and outdoor games are closely linked to the
rising level of obesity nowadays. As we could noticed that children are not interested in sport and
outdoor activities. For example, jogging, swimming, riding bicycle, aerobics and so forth. They
would rather playing computer games and watching television when they have spare times. Apart
from children, many of the adults who lead busy lives did not exercise more than twice in a month
because they think that exercising is a waste of time. The sedentary nature of exercising in both
adults and children us the major cause of obesity.

Furthermore, exercise regularly is the most effective way to keep our body fit and avoid
obesity. This is because physical exercises or body work-outs could help us to release the toxins
or harmful chemicals in our bodies by sweating. In order to keep our body fit and slim, we have
to exercise at least twice in a week, each time for 30 minutes. In spite of that, media mass and
government should play their roles to draw communities' attentions and encouraged them to
participate in sports or outdoor activities. For an instance, awareness campaigns should be carried
out in every districts to inculcate the knowledge of maintaining healthy lifestyle among the people.
Meanwhile, parents have the responsibility to ensure their children leads a healthy lifestyle by
exercising regularly.

To prevent the problem of obesity from escalating, having balanced diets should be
practiced to keep our bodies healthy. As the saying goes: 'Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you
what you are.' It is obvious that our eating habits does affect our state of health directly. As a
smart consumer, we should always refer to the food pyramid so that we would not make any
insensible choose of foods. As we all knew that eating greasy foods such as burger, pizzas, nuggets,
fried chickens and crisps are as if taking risks on our health. So, we should eat a lot of vegetables
and fruits as well as the source of protein like fishes as they are high in fiber and good for our
health.
 In conclusion, obesity is one of the diseases which is caused by the carelessness of human
being. However, it could be cured if we look into it wisely so that we could take some thoughtful
actions on rectifying it. As the proverb says: 'Prevention is better than cure'. In short, all parties
should be concerned about the spread of this problem for this problem can be solved to create
the future of harmony and healthy.