OBESITY — WORLDWIDE PROBLEM

THE WORLD IS GETTING FATTER

By Pallavi Sharma

Obesity is growing into a major problem of the world. Obesity is the next stage to overweight and not at all a healthy condition.

Except for athletes, whether a person suffers from obesity can be determined from the body mass index. The number of children suffering from obesity has just doubled and those of teenagers tripled.

Consumption of more calories than required leads to overweight, and then chronic over weight to obesity. It becomes even more dangerous, because the person affected by it becomes prone to other diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer and atherosclerosis.

Source: Obesity a major problem all over the world