Obesity
Obesity
is a complex disorder which involve an excessisive amount of body
fat. Obesity increases your risk of diseases and many health problems
such as diabetes, heart diseases, high blood pressure and
osteoporosis and many more.
If
you are extreamly obese, you are specially likely to have health
problem related to your weight.
- World wode obesity has nearly doubled since 1980
- Obesity is now becoming a major clinical and public health concern.
- It is contributing to increasing mobility and mortality rates for several chronic diseases.
- Affecting both adults and child populations worldwide.
- More than 1.4 billion adults were overweight in 2008. Of these over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese.
- 65% of the world population live in countries were overweight and obesity kills morepeople than underweight.
- 42 million of children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2013.
- The number of overweight or obese people are estimated to as high as 2 billion.
- May increase up to 3 billion by the year 2020.
- Obesdity is prevenatable
Contributing
factors of obesity
- Energy imbalance, eating too many calories & not getting enough physical actitvity
- Genes
- Metabolism
- Behaviour
- Environment, culture and socio economic status
Following anthropocentric measurements are widely used to assessment
of obesity
- By Weight and Height
- By waist to hip ratio
- By waist circumference
- By Body Mass Index
- By skinfold thickness
- By Waist to height ratio
Body
Mass Index
By
calculation,
By
chart,
Use
follwing link
http://www.nutriactiva.com/bmi-table-chart-equation-body-mass-index/
Interpritate
your results
If your BMI
value is over than 25.0 , you are overweight or obese.
With the higher
BMI, the risk of noncomiunicable diseases increases and childhood
pbesity is associated with a higher chance of obesity, disability in
adulthood and premature death. As well as obese children experience
in breathing difficulties, increased risk of fractures, hypertension,
insulin resistance and early markes of cardiovascular diseases.
Waist to hip
ratio
Identify where
you are.............????
Recent
development have led to the availability of several measurement
technique for assessing body composition
- Dentiometry
- Duel Energy Absorbtiometry(DEXA)
- Tracer Dilution Techniques
- Neutron Activation
- Ultra Sound
- Magnatic Responce Imaging(MRI)
- Computerized Tomography (CT)
- Bio-electric impedance Analysis(BIA)
Common health
consequences of overweight or obesity
Raised Body
Mass Index(BMI) is a major risk factor for noncommunicable diseases
as following;
- Cardiovascular diseases(CVD) mainly stock and heart diseases , these were the leading cause of death in 2012.
- Type II Diabetes
- Musculoskeletal disorder
- Some cancer such as breast,endometrial and colon
- Some cancer such as breast,endometrial and colon
- Kidney Disease
- Sleep Apnea/ Sleeping problems
- Skin problem
- Gynolological Abnormalities
- Osteoartrities
- Stress incontinence
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