The Dangers Of Obesity

In today society, being slim is considered beautiful. Although most of the people are trying hard to obtain the silhouette of Cameron Diaz; although slimming centres and gym workout centres are mushrooming everywhere offering women and men the opportunity to become slimmer; although there are many researchers and introductions of organic and healthy food; unfortunately, obesity still manage to slip into our society where it is not only blossomed into a full-blown epidemic in the western countries, it is also on the rapid rise in Malaysia.

Obesity causes many kinds of fatal illnesses. Besides high blood pressure, stroke and heart disease, diabetes is the most serious and highest rate killer in Malaysia. Many Malaysians are suffering terribly from diabetis especially the obeses who are not only the adults but also the youngsters and even the new born infants. This is one of the disastrous effects of submitting oneself to a steady dose of highly processed food, sweet & high fat food in modern life.

Obesity also causes one's physically exhaustion and clumsiness . The load of tons of fats and meats make them difficult to do the simple routines of movements in their everyday life. They would be having problem to descend a staircase for the fear of being toppled by their own huge belly; or they might also be having difficulties to just walk through a threshold due to the bigger sizes of their gigantic bodies than the sizes of doors. Consequently, physical inconveniences and exhaustions will force them having no other choices but just to sit or to lie down on the sofas or the beds doing nothing as like the disabled people.

Furthermore, chronic weight gain which will wreak the havoc on one waist line would also cause one to have low self esteem. Fattish obese always gives a negative impression to people where always negative comments such as clumsy, stupid, ugly and so on are used to relate and describe the obese. Obese would also easily become the laughing-stock of those immoral people. Moreover, the negative impression of clumsiness and not productivity have been the barriers of the obese to their success. Hence, besides physically exhaustion, they also suffer mentally and psychologically, which would lead to another epidemic social disease, Depression.

There are many factors contributing to the explosion of obesity in Malaysia and the world. Besides the latest discovery of the genes hormonal imbalances and the viruses infections, the first and the main culprint is to be the nutritional disorder of an individual's diet and follows by the unhealthy lifestyle of a individuals where the expenditure of energy and dietary habits are imbalance.

In the meantime, scientist across the globe are racing to discover the reason of the impact of genetics on our body lines, size and shape, Malaysians should be educated and nurtured also that the heathier eating habits and lifestyle could be obtained.