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Obesity Kills More Than Hunger
Something to think about as we navigate a health care plan. A new report by the World Health Organization documents how one-quarter of the total 60 million annual deaths annually are premature and preventable deaths.
Furthermore, global life expectancy would increase by 5 years if we tackled 5 preventable factors affecting health. These are: underweight children, unprotected sex, alcohol abuse, unsafe water and related sanitation and hygiene issues, plus high blood pressure.
The report, Global health risks, describes 24 factors that shape human health and longevity. They are a mixture of environmental, behavioral, and physiological factors, including preventable societal ills, like air pollution.
Eight factors alone account for over 75 percent of coronary heart disease deaths—the leading cause of death worldwide. These eight factors include booze abuse, smoking, and low fruit and vegetable intake. Obesity creates or contributes to the other causes: high blood glucose, high blood pressure, high body mass index, high cholesterol, and physical inactivity.
Worldwide, overweight and obesity now cause more deaths than underweight.
Combining any or all of these factors gets deadly in a hurry, the report notes. Reducing even one risk increases longevity.
A few other sad and preventable highlights:
- Nine environmental and behavioral risks, together with 7 infectious causes, are responsible for 45 percent of cancer deaths worldwide
- Unhealthy and unsafe environments cause one in four child deaths worldwide
- 71% of lung cancer deaths are caused by tobacco smoking
- Easily remedied nutritional deficiencies prevent one in 38 newborns from reaching the age of five in low-income countries
- 10 leading preventable risks decrease life expectancy by nearly 7 years globally and by more than 10 years for Africa
It's the challenge of our individual and collective future: to eat right (be it more or less), exercise more, quit smoking, drink booze in moderation, wear condoms, clean the waters, clean the air. That should keep us busy for 80 years or more, a decent lifespan.
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40 Percent of Deaths Linked to Environment
Hmmm... Maybe it's not so bad to drink Dr. Pepper after all. A recent Cornell University study has found that nearly half of deaths worldwide are caused or exacerbated by environmental pollution, including water pollution. David Pimentel, the Cornell professor of ecology and evolutionary biology who conducted the research, links 62 million deaths each year to organic or chemical pollutants, placing these factors alongside...
Obesity as cause?
"Obesity creates or contributes to the other causes: high blood glucose, high blood pressure, high body mass index, high cholesterol, and physical inactivity." This seems to be backwards reasoning. It seems more accurate to say that inactivity causes obesity than to say that obesity causes inactivity. In fact, numerous studies have shown that inactivity, regardless of body weight, causes health problems associated with obesity and that a poor diet and inactivity are more likely to be the risky behaviors with obesity as a symptom.
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I had similar response. However, many overweight people may see their weight as an impediment for exercising. Their intrapersonal communication may go something like: " I'm already too fat, what's the point in exercising " .
Obesity is caused by taking
Obesity is caused by taking in more calories than one expends. Inactivity causes you to expend fewer calories. After body weight increases past a certain point, activity becomes much more difficult and unlikely... It's more of a vicious cycle problem than either the problem is obesity or it's inactivity.
And only getting worse
What's worse than the sad statistics that you quote relating to obesity is that rates of obesity are getting worse and it is expected that in some states, the next generation of children will have a 50% rate of obesity. We are treating neither ourselves nor the planet in a sustainable manner that will allow us or our children to maintain a good quality of life.
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The issue of health has a
The issue of health has a different significance in Denmark today compared to hundred years ago. In the early 1900’s health was threatened by malnutrition and starvation, while health today on the contrary is often threatened by obesity.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) states that the health condition of one billion people is threatened due to obesity. 300 million are already outrageously fat, out of which 18 million are children under the age of five. The EU has 60 million overweight citizens, and every fourth European child is overweight.
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The health issue is really serious these days and most of all in big cities.If any one wants to loss some weight than he needs to control his diet.All the junk foods are mainly cause of fat and weight increase..
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Health issue
The health issue is really serious these days and most of all in big cities.If any one wants to loss some weight than he needs to control his diet.All the junk foods are mainly cause of fat and weight increase..
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The health issue is really serious these days and most of all in big cities.If any one wants to loss some weight than he needs to control his diet.All the junk foods are mainly cause of fat and weight increase..
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Even if you exercise, eat
Even if you exercise, eat right, recycle, grow your own veggies, don't drink or smoke; illnesses happen. Obesity can be caused by many endocrine problems not just glutteny. So many people are now having problems with hypothyroidism as only one example of a cause.
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Eating healthy means healthy
Eating healthy means healthy living. We don't need to over burden ourselves in order to be healthy. Remember that too much exercise, too much diet don't help us to be healthy, as what we think of. As we grow older we'll be encountering many health issues, so now that we are still young, we must start investing in our body.
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