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In order Obesity No Return

There is truth in the philosophy of the Arabs about the diet. Desert people, in everyday life, has a principle: when morning was breakfast like a king, eat lunch and then when like prince, while at night is like a beggar eat.
In a disciplined person with such a diet, he closed the space to fall into the habit of snacking and eating patterns are not excessive. The problem is, this lifestyle often makes people Unable to be consistent with a pattern. Marginalizes even healthy diets. From parents, the habit down to her children.
A survey in the UK some time ago mentioned, became the parents who always blamed for poor diet of children now because they are considered most responsible.
Although respondent set the largest job (88 percent) is on the shoulders of parents, the child was eating patterns are also influenced by the school, food industry, and the media. Because when the children were asked what kind of food they like, usually will depend on the commercial on television shows. Especially when the food products brought out the stars of children or offering a reward, they will become fans instantly.
Something similar happened in this country. Look at the habits Farhan, 6.5 years. Every week, she invited her mother to the fast-food restaurant.
”I want the prize,”he said.
The mother of wonder, from where the boy knew there was a series of prizes if you buy packages of food in the restaurant.
”I knew from TV,”the answer is simple.
Because that’s the trigger like Ganesja Harimutri, child heart specialist Heart Hospital Harapan Kita, Jakarta, concluded that the children now so menggandrungi junk food.
Snacks”calorie and high salt content consumed a lot of kids now,”he said.
Not only that, they hooked snacking on cookies, ice cream, and candy that high sugar yield.
Practical mindset of parents who do not want to bother cooking becomes another reason for bad habits in children. Not to mention the lack of routine physical activity, which makes the accumulation of excess body fat and potentially obesity.
Pediatrician Children’s Hospital and Maternity Harapan Kita, Tinuk Great Meilany, in 2002 examined the prevalence of obese children in three private primary schools in East Jakarta. The result, the incidence of obesity of 27.5 percent. In theory, adolescents who have excess weight of obese potential.
According to nutritionist Melinda Hospital, Bandung, John Chandrawinata, when at primary school age are overweight in the percentile graphs Towards Health Card (KMS) children, the potential for obesity as adults is very large.
Excess calorie intake”will make fat cells grow and develop,”he said.
Therefore, the hypothesis Johanes: almost always the child of excess body fat remains consistent shape like that until they mature.
Hence, Johannes said the most effective measures to prevent obesity in children is the parents’ supervision. Parents are expected to always consider the diet of children, both in terms of quantity and quality of food, so that obesity does not happen to their children.
However, keep in mind, in addition to diet and lifestyle, the reasons of course affect the development of genetic obesity. Children with obese parents are obese is possible 10-fold compared with children who have parents with normal weight.
As obesity in children can result in a number of chronic diseases, namely disorders of glucose metabolism, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes in adolescents, hypertension, dyslipidemia, or a variety of disorders of the liver, gastrointestinal tract, and even sleep.

Obesity More Dangerous Than Terrorism

The countries in the world today is too focused on the eradication of terrorism, but there is a problem that is not less dangerous problem of obesity and lifestyle diseases that kill millions of people. The warnings about the dangers of obesity emerged in the international conference in Oxford Health Alliance Summit in Sydney on Monday (25 / 2). The conference also recommended the importance of overcoming the emphasis on the dangers of obesity. Deadly factors like poor diet, smoking and lack of exercise should be a priority in combating the growing epidemic of chronic diseases that could have prevented it.

A professor of health law in the United States, Lawrence Gostin argues that global terrorism is a real threat, but a lower risk of obesity, diabetes and smoking-related diseases.

“Since 11 September, still limping from one crisis to another crisis, that is, of course, fear of society. If you are less interested in issues of terrorism is that our obesity epidemic in secret to kill millions of people World wide shadow. pay little attention to this problem, “said Gostin.
Annual Meeting of the Oxford Health Alliance funded by the University of Oxford will be held in kelimakalinya. Present at this meeting of leading experts from academia, government, economics, law, economics and urban planning in an effort to change the voice.

Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 388 million people worldwide die from chronic diseases in the next 10 years.
“There’s a political paralysis in the response to this issue,” said Gostin, who is also advisor to the United States Government and a professor at Georgetown University and Johns.

He noted that efforts to prevent obesity and its influence seldom occur in the campaigning activities of the U.S. presidential elections.

“He started the suffering of the people are always afraid, when you consider that obesity could shorten the average life expectancy of an entire generation. This leads to the first investment in life expectancy since data collection in 1990,” .

The meeting also highlighted some things like the fact that there are some risks to health and care of government and media. Another fact is that heart disease, lung cancer, diabetes and cancer, it is estimated that 60 percent of the cause of death worldwide. The new threat to the health of a case of SARS, avian flu, which is HIV / AIDS, terrorism, bioterrorism and climate change so dramatically and emotionally sugguh.

The conference will be born next Wednesday at an end, “Sydney” Resolution “and urged the government and industry to take action to prevent millions of premature deaths from chronic diseases.

“The way we live today makes you sick, makes the planet is sick and is not sustainable,” said Ruth Colagiuri, co-director of Oxford Asia Pacific.

The Sydney resolution focuses on four topics including the importance of cities in the healthy lifestyle, healthy lifestyles, such as walking, cycling and reduces carbon monoxide emissions from motor vehicles.

Physical inactivity is a risk factor for many chronic diseases, and it is estimated that, worldwide, causing 1.9 million deaths a year, said Tony Capon, professor of Health Studies from Macquarie University in Australia.

The resolution also stresses the importance of reducing levels of sugar, fat and salt in food for fresh food and cheap, easily accessible, and intensified global efforts to reduce smoking.