Wednesday 16 November 2011

- growing your way to death -

hello... salam 1malaysia to everyone .

guess i'll be the first to share my post here. well, not exactly my post since this is mostly quoted from WHO. Just as a n eye opener, i assume some of you people might already know about this - our government and specifically KKM had started an upgraded and newly revamp campaign on intervening the health problem in Malaysia called NCDP1Malaysia.

as the name implies, it involve ALL people in Malaysia from all walk of life. As long as you have a legit Malaysian NIRC then you should consider yourself to be part of this campaign whether you like it or not.

In a nutshell, this campaign is about

  • early detection of non-communicable diseases like diabetes (sweet pee aka kencing manis) , hypertension ( high blood pressure aka tekanan darah tinggi), hypercholestrolemia (high cholestrol level aka lemak berlebihan), asthma aka semput and others.
  • early intervention of those who had been diagnosed with the above illness
I'll try to get in more detail on this issue in my next post about this NCDP1Malaysia campaign. Now, I want to share some interesting fact and features of a condition that is the 'thing' nowadays - obesity...


Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. A crude population measure of obesity is the body mass index (BMI), a person’s weight (in kilograms) divided by the square of his or her height (in metres). A person with a BMI of 30 or more is generally considered obese. A person with a BMI equal to or more than 25 is considered overweight.

Overweight and obesity are major risk factors for a number of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Once considered a problem only in high income countries, overweight and obesity are now dramatically on the rise in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in urban settings.

Overweight and obesity are the fifth leading risk for global deaths. At least 2.8 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese. In addition, 44% of the diabetes burden, 23% of the ischaemic heart disease burden and between 7% and 41% of certain cancer burdens are attributable to overweight and obesity.

Some WHO global estimates from 2008 follow.

  • 1.5 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight.
  • Of these 1.5 billion overweight adults, over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese.
  • Overall, more than one in ten of the world’s adult population was obese.

In 2010, around 43 million children under five were overweight. Once considered a high-income country problem, overweight and obesity are now on the rise in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in urban settings. Close to 35 million overweight children are living in developing countries and 8 million in developed countries.

Overweight and obesity are linked to more deaths worldwide than underweight. For example, 65% of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kill more people than underweight (this includes all high-income and most middle-income countries).

Key facts From WHO

  • Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980.
  • In 2008, 1.5 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight. Of these over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese.
  • 65% of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight.
  • Nearly 43 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2010.
  • Obesity is preventable.

you can get further information for WHO website at here

Well, with just this short facts alone it make me ponder about both our younger generation and our health future. I'll continue on this issue in my next post. I'll leave with this as a "food for thought" (no pun intended) ' to eat or not to eat is not the question but the question should be is my family and myself eating the right things???'

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