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Friday 2 September 2011

About Obesity


What is obesity? This word is widely use nowadays thanks to all the modern living. In short, obesity means way overweight, you are not at your desire weight. Another way to measure your obesity is your Body Mass Index (BMI), your height to weight ratio. It should not exceed 24, unless you are an athlete or body builder.

How to Measure Your BMI? Please click HERE
Another way is to check your body fat level, which you can easily get it via a body composition analyzer.
A healthy person should not have more than 25% of body fat, if your body fat is over 30%, then you are considered obese.

Before I go further, lets see some interesting statistics:

Malaysia = SEA Fattest Country, 6th in Asia
2 out of 5 adults are overweight in Malaysia
38% youngsters(Age 12-18) are overweight in Malaysia

What Obesity can do for you?

Besides not good looking, keep buying bigger size clothes, what else it can impact you?
It creates more damage than you can ever imagine.
Research study shows that obesity is the main contribution to:

1. High Cholesterol Level
2. High Blood Pressure
3. Type 2 Diabetes

Next topic would be a post moterm on obesity.

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