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PANDEMIC OF OBESITY

Causes, Complications; and Cure with Naturo-Food Therapy

and Guidelines for Healthy Eating

INTRODUCTION

1.       It should not be a surprise at all that the world has become gripped with the weight or obesity crisis – more correctly global obesity pandemic. Obesity is a product of incorrect lifestyle and wrong eating habits. It is the faulty attitudes, explosion of highly promoted energy-dense junk foods and sedentary lifestyles that are responsible for the increase in deadly cargo – your weight. This leads to the loss of figure due to bulging tummies and huge bums.

2.       We have become more attached to our cars. Life is also faster, there is less time to prepare food as both husband and wife are usually working. Meanwhile, the food industry has become hyper-competitive and in the aggressive battle for market share, children have become a fair game with enticing media adverts and branding machines dispensing junk snacks and drinks in schools.

3.       Obesity is mainly regarded as a problem of the affluent society. There is increasing evidence that children and adolescents of rich and even middle class families are generally obese. Poverty limits both purchasing power and motivation to make healthy choices of food. People on low incomes are more likely to suffer from diseases related to malnutrition.

4.       Obesity is more prevalent in urban areas than in rural areas, though latter are catching up fast. For urban people strapped to office desks and living room couches in front of big TV screens, struggling with shooting blood pressure, blood sugar levels and bulging waistlines, fitness is the new aspiration and “flab” the four letter word. According to World Health Organistion (WHO) report in 2003, 50 million Indians are overweight. This has boosted the slimming industry to around Rs.1,500 crore annually with fitness gyms, diet and slimming clinics, food supplements, weight loss kits, sugarless foods and beverages, fat free or less fat foods / snacks etc. etc. The market for weight loss baits is bursting at the seams. Isn’t it ironical that first we spend lot of money to buy the expensive wrong foods served in fast-food outlets and restaurants and then we shell out yet more money, time and effort to shed the extra cargo by going to gyms and health clubs!