Obesity is getting from worse to worst in England, a new report has undraped this fact. This report further uncovers several other startling facts, so, first let’s have a look at these facts before moving ahead.
• Number of prescriptions written for anti-obesity drugs was just 127,000 in the year 1999 while compared to 871,000 in the year 2005.
• In the last six years prescriptions for anti-obesity drugs has increased by 600 percent.
• Body mass index or BMI, which was just 13.2 percent among English men in the year 1993, has reached 22.1 percent in 2005.
• Where BMI of English women was 16.4 percent in 1993, it has reached 21.9 percent in the year 2005.
• Obesity has managed to engulf English kids as well.
• In the year 1995, 10.9 percent boys were obese while in the year 2005 this percentage reached the height of 18 percent.
• In the year 1995, where 12 percent girls were obese, while this figure reached 18.1 percent in the year 2005.
• In Europe, England is the country where obesity is catching up at highest rate.
These figures show that how obesity is pluming out in England, causing a great threat to its people. The more grim fact is that kids are also been swallowed up by obesity and doubtlessly it can be said that if obesity keeps on rising at this speed then England would look more like a den of ailing people.
As we know, obesity is such a lap where all kinds of physical as well as psychological disorders get cherished. Among such physical and mental disorders, we may chiefly count problems like heart diseases, Osteoarthritis, Diabetes, gallbladder disease, cancer, depression, etc. This problem looks more horrendous when we find that not only elders but also kids are being targeting by obesity.
To hold a single cause responsible for this much of rise in obesity would not be right and I think there are many factors at the bottom nurturing the giant tree of obesity and counting bad eating habits, sedentary lifestyle, and decreased participation in outdoor games would not be wrong.
However, question, remains still unriddled that what should be done to hold back the situation, which is fast getting from worse to worst. for that first of all people will have to understand their responsibility to check this hike in obesity cases and for that they will have to follow healthy eating as well as living pattern, which could help them stemming obesity. At the same time, government as well as NGOs will also have to come forward encouraging people for participating in such activities that may help them reducing their fat. Moreover, schools should understand their responsibility and should make sure that every kid participates in physical activity.
It is need of the hour and we will have to do something to check this rise in obesity because the rate at which obesity is striding in England if not checked then future of England is bound to be full of problems, problems and nothing but just problems.
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Via: Physorg
