Post 7

Is obesity a Disease?

            In my personal opinion obesity it is a disease. Why? because obesity affects your lifestyle in so many ways like: impairs the normal functioning of the body; -it can be caused by genetic factors-(but this not define that you will have obesity, its only that you can have more tendency to have obesity than other people),its a reason why people dies: In Nov. 2013, the US Surgeon General reported an estimated 300,000 deaths per year may be attributed to obesity, also obesity can bring other disease relationated with the cholesterol, sugar in blood or cardiac problems.

            Actually, like many other disease, people don’t have idea that obesity is a real problem. And the principal factor of having this disease is because the people don’t have education of this topic  and they don’t care what they eat, they don’t take care of  themselves. 

The main factors associated with a higher risk of being obese were age, high salt consumption and high alcohol intake. The probability of being obese increases in women that sleep less than seven hours per day or have a poor health. Sedentariness and lack of physical activity were risk factors among men.

If you realize the principal reasons of having obesity are relationated to personal care. So, this tell us is necessary to give more education about this to the people.  Actually obesity its treated in Chile like disesase and try to give more informastion about the food you buy,the government take obesity as a real problem and its trying to make something about it like the “Law of labelled” ( Ley del etiquetado).

           The National Health Survey in Chile 2016-2017 shows that only 24.5% of the poblation it is on their normal weight, 39.8% have excess weight, 31.2% have obesity and 3,2% have morbid obesity.

So, obesity have to be treated like a disease, obesity have to be a theme of the government .

Obesity is a real problem.