Sunday, November 2, 2008

Obesity

Obesity in definition is the consuming of excessive body fat up to a certain limit that the body gives negative affects. This is a disease or sickness involves cardiovascular, diabetes and also obstructive sleep apnea, cancer and osteoporosis alike. As a result, obesity causes a decrease in life expectancy. There are ways to solve obesity which is through dieting and exercising, if this fails thus the means of higher and more painful ways also being given an option eg. anti-obesity drugs and bariatric surgery.

Is brunei having problems with obesity? Yes, although not many is affected, the facts that obesity issues is actually increasing and going concern here in Brunei. With growing lack of exercise and other physical activities caused by advanced entertaining technologies, few people have different ways to suit themselves in their own environment; some people are able to maintain a reasonable balance between energy input and energy expenditure whereas others have a chronic imbalance that favors energy input, which expresses itself as overweight and obesity. These differences could be due to genetic reasons, imbalance of the gut flora, or simple excess of intake compared with a person's basal metabolic rate and level of physical exercise.

2 comments:

Raihan said...

yaw..eksen mu tu..ahahaha..anyway chiiill

Ms. Sheena said...

Saini, try to include more of your own opinions, with examples of what you see around you in Brunei