Obesity In Malaysia Article 2018
The prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents is rising rapidly in many countries including malaysia.
Obesity in malaysia article 2018. This article aims to present the associations between body mass index based body. Obesity rates among children in asia pacific are rising at a rapid rate. The poor families may not have enough money hence consume the less nutritious but high calorie foods which are usually cheaper while the rich families can afford to buy food sometimes make the unwise decision of buying the wrong kinds of food high calories. Its purpose is to explore what patterns we subconsciously pick up from our surroundings that may be contributing to our national plight of obesity.
Based on the economist intelligence unit s tackling obesity in asean report released on june 1 malaysia s obesity prevalence is 13 3 while 38 5 of the population is overweight. Malaysian lifestyle leads to obesity. To conclude this is not an article to blame the malaysian lifestyle or the culture for infusing bad fitness habits in us. As shown in figure 4 malaysia s total cost for obesity as a percentage of nominal gdp ranks top at a range between 0 4 and 0 8 far ahead of all other countries in asean.
Malaysia is one of the most overweight countries in southeast asia. 11 18 original article burden of disease attributable to overweight and obesity in malaysia foo lee peng hanny zurina hamzah norashidah mohamed nor and rusmawati said. A recent study estimates that worldwide gdp losses both from direct and indirect costs of diabetes from 2011 to 2030 will total us 1 7tril comprising us 900bil for high income countries and us 800bil for low and middle. Malaysia is recorded as the highest number of obese rates in the south east asia with prevalence of obesity was at 13 3 per cent while overweight was at 38 5 per cent farezza hanum rashid 2017.
Malaysian journal of public health medicine 2018 vol.