Obesity

An overweight person is commonly referred as a fat man; our mind perceives the person as less active and unpleasant to look at. Are you obese, if so ask yourself a question, am I healthy, attractive and active. The answer is - no. About 97 million adults in the US are obese. Globally, obesity is on the increase, three in ten are obese.

Obesity in medical term is the excess accumulated fat that results in adverse effect on health. In other words, body weight that is undesirable and considered unhealthy. Eat enough to sustain your daily activities, eating more and burning least calories eventually stores the unused fat and results in overweight.

Causes of obesity can be due to various factors, firstly, consuming large amount of food, not doing enough exercise and lastly genetic factors. Next, to determine whether you are underweight, overweight or obese know your ‘Body Mass Index’ or commonly known as BMI. Weight is divided by height in squares- kg/ m2 is the formula.  

Obesity leads to deadly diseases particularly heart ailments, diabetes, osteoarthritis, high blood pressure and certain types of cancer.

My BMI is 20.83 is considered normal, the range of 18.5 to 25.0 is neither underweight nor overweight. The secret is my weight is 52kg and height is 158cm. BMI 25 is overweight and from 30 onwards is obese and 40 is considered morbidly obese.

For self check go to http://www.bestcalculator.org/miscellaneous/bmi-calculator.php

Having checked BMI do not sit idle, exercise clean habits. Change food habits to fit your lifestyle, balanced diet is utmost important.  Do simple exercise or walk at least for half an hour daily to lose excess calories.

Stay healthy! How? Discipline comes first eat less if you like the food very much. No frequent snacking, avoid it. Reduce the intake of any white food stuff like sugar, rice, wheat flour etc. Be your servant, shift from auto machines to physically demanding work.

Quote from a stay healthy person:-

“I was also following something my mother taught me. When you are enjoying a real good meal, stop when the food is still good. So, I guess it's good for me to stop now,”

Mahathir Mohamad

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6^th August, a day to remember, my birthday today, the first one to greet me is little Sanjay with a broad smile though he is not able to greet in words his smile cost trillions and I felt like receiving from trillion people. Little Sanjay to friends and relatives all I could say is A Big Thank You.

Today I went to a temple which is like my mum’s place. After prayers had the usual breakfast of bread and coffee, then proceeded to browsing the dailies to feed my hunger for news updates .  Today, an article about a medical student who pursues her course at one of the local colleges captured me.  A daughter to a single mother with two siblings finds it difficult to finance her course. The mother a sole bread winner gets enough only to raise the family. It was highlighted in the paper about her appeal to the public for donation. A 5 ringgit from every Indian in the country would suffice to meet her money needs. I called up the MIC  branch in Negri Sembilan to verify the published news. I then paid a small amount into her account.  Small may be the amount, the satisfaction was very huge.

We had a wonderful lunch with one of my daughter’s family who lives here.  My grand children and everyone showered me with gifts. I accepted them happily though I’m not the one who awaits this kind of gesture. I yearn for love and loving words.  I deeply felt the absence of my other two daughters.  Wishes from them were far yet close on webcams. However, the afternoon was a memorable one.

Whoever reads my blog and wishes to donate this bright and capable girl, please do so. Details of the Marsha college student:                                                                                                        

Kumutha A/P Jeyaprakash, CIMB account No 1415-0076736-52-6  

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