According to Merriam Webster’s dictionary obesity is a case
marked by the extravagant accumulation and storage of fat in the body. In the
UAE obesity and related health problems are a huge concern as the percentage of
obese people goes up every year. The UAE is ranked in the 18th place
of the world’s fattest countries. An estimate of 68.3% of the county’s citizens
is overweight. There are some diseases that are related to obesity such as:
osteoarthritis, heart strokes, cancer, high blood pressure, breathing problems,
and diabetes, and the UAE is the second highest country that has diabetes in
the world. The more fat around the stomach’s area the higher your risk of
developing heart and breathing diseases. Calories matter; some people eat a low
amount of food but still get overweight or sometimes obese and others eat more
than the number of calories that they should get and still stay fit; why is
that? It depends on the quality of calories that you are consuming. For
example, A ate 100 calories of nuts and B ate 100 calories of packaged snacks,
although both of them consumed the same amount of calories the quality of the
fat that each portion contains is different. To wrap it up always consider
quality not quantity.
Obesity
is one of the main causes of many different diseases. Obesity is spreading all
over the UAE because people hate to do physical games; they prefer video games
and cinema instead of playing football or swimming. There are a lot of new
technologies that people use as an entertainment and there are a variety of
choices for the people to choose. Junk food is one of the main reasons for
obesity in the UAE; fast food restaurants are all over the UAE and they provide
a lot of options for the customers comfort by delivering the food all the way
to the customer’s place. When people
come to the UAE they become obese," said Dr Fuad Ahmed, a consultant
specializing in obesity surgery. He blamed long working hours because people
stay for seven or more hours sitting in the offices without moving a lot, junk
food and a climate that discourages outdoor exercise as the UAE is very hot and
has only two seasons. Are important factor. If we go back 30 years, people in the UAE were
healthier because they were more dependent on their bodies. Rashi Chowdhary says the number of
expats who used her nutrition and weight-loss services has doubled in the past
two years because now everything is on their bottoms. Cars everywhere, lifts
everywhere. Kids under 11 years old are getting fatter every year because of bad surveillance
from the parents.
There are many ways that you can follow to lose the extra weight
you’ve gained through the years. The period of diet can be long or short; it
depends on the amount of kilograms you want to lose. Some people go with a diet plan by themselves that
can be wrong; because they starve themselves and may eat only one meal a
day which is wrong. Maybe the proportion of the food they eat is little but the
calories it contains are too much for example: candy, chocolate, soft drinks,
and packaged food. It is true that they solve one problem which is obesity but
they’ll have other health problems like constipation and anemia, which can cause hair loss
and loss of consciousness. Moreover, not including
exercises in your schedule is a huge issue because it helps a lot with weight
loss. On the other hand, there are proper diet plane or solutions. Some people
get medicines that can help them burn calories or reduce their appetite; others
get surgeries done; these operations could be helpful if you are at least 80
pounds overweight; it might also be an option for people who have high blood
pressure, and heart or lungs diseases, these surgeries get you to eat small
amount of food. It works for the people who exercise and eat healthy, but if
you ate chocolates it will still be the same and you won’t benefit from the
surgery. These kinds of solutions can be risky sometimes because it can cause
death, so it’s better to choose the easy affordable way to loss weight; you can
start by cutting junk food out of your life; next is to do some exercises like
jogging or swimming, and then start snacking fruits and greens that are high in
fibers and loaded with multi-vitamins. It may take a long time but it’s a healthy
and effective way.
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