David , who is a ninety-eight kilogram white collar
man , had a stroke .According to the medical report , his aorta is blocked in a
large part by cholesterol .Therefore, the oxygen which is carried by blood
can’t transfer from his heart to brain and therefore causes a stroke. From now
on, he even can’t speak clearly, let alone walk. However , he is not alone. In
fact , there are more than ten thousand people who have a stroke due to obesity
per year in Hong Kong.
According to World Health Organization(2013), “obesity
is defined as abnormal or excessive
fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. A crude population measure of
obesity is the body mass index (BMI), a person’s weight (in kilograms) divided
by the square of his or her height (in metres). A person with a BMI of 30 or
more is generally considered obese.” With this definition, The Hong Kong Department of
Health made a statistic in 2013. It shows that there are around 1.4 million of
citizens who are classified as obese in Hong Kong. It means that there is one
obese in five Hong Kong citizens. Moreover, the department has done a research
about the trends of obesity rate in Hong Kong since 1995. It shows that the
obesity rate increases from 7% to 19% which is more than a double over these 19
years . Certainly, obesity is a serious problem in Hong Kong which is getting
more and more serious. What’s more, obesity is associated with many chronic
diseases …
Firstly, obesity may leads to several
cardiovascular diseases .According to the researches did by the scientists of
American Heart Association (2013) , obese have much more cholesterol in their
blood .The cholesterol is sticky and will easily stick on the inner wall on the
blood vessels .As the diameter of these blocked blood vessels become more and
more narrow , it becomes more and more difficult for the blood to pass through
the vessels .As a result , the blood will accumulate in these vessels which
brings about high blood pressure .High blood pressure will result in many
cardiac complications , such as heart failure , coronary heart disease and
stroke etc.
Secondly , obesity may gives rise to acquired
diabetes and several cancers .Dr David W.Haslam (2005) , who is a famous doctor
in United Kingdom , proves that obesity will increase the risk of pancreas
failure where the pancreas no longer can produce enough insulin to convert the
sugar into fat .This is called acquired diabetes. Moreover , Dr David proves
that obesity will lead to increase in metabolic rate which speeds up the rate
of cell division .As higher rate of cell division will result in high risk of
cell mutation , the risk of forming cancer cells will also increase .Even worse
, most of the cancers are untreatable.
Thirdly, obesity may results in infertility from
both male and female. According to the researches did by the scientists of The
Ottawa Hospital in United Kingdom (2008) , women who are classified obese are
less likely to become pregnant than the normal women .On another hand, the
quality of sperms of men who are classified as obese are usually lower than
that of normal men .Therefore, the men who are classified as obese have a high
risk of infertility .
In conclusion ,obesity may lead to many terrible
chronic diseases. Even worse , a research did by the Department of Health in
Hong Kong shows that the BMI and risk of death have positive relationship .It
means that more fat a person is , a high chance for him to death due to obesity
related diseases.
As we now know that obesity will lead to many
serious health problem , the obeses should take action to reduce their fat rate
as fast as they can instead of ignoring this problem .In these recent centuries
, there are three common ways of keeping fit which are taking Weight Loss Drugs
, doing Gastric Bypass Surgery and eating nutrition products together with
doing regular exercises. Unfortunately, every way has its own disadvantage…
Consider the way of taking Weight Loss Drugs which
are usually the chemical that can increase people metabolic rate to help
burning fat and reduce the appetite of users so that reduce their input of fat
, it is the fastest way to reduce weight among the three ways .However , taking
Weight Loss Drugs has many side effects , like users may get depressed and
refuse to eat(Anorexia norvesa) which results in malnutrition. Moreover, after
the users stop taking these drugs , most of them will get increasing in their
weight again and even may get heavier than their original weight before taking
these drugs.
Consider the method of doing Gastric Bypass Surgery
which reduces the capacity of patients’ stomach that lead to faster sense of
fullness when having meals . It can effectively reduce the amount of food ate
by people , so reduce their weight .Although it is a fast and permanent way for
keeping fit , there is very high risk of get infection of internal organs ,
especially stomach according to a research did by Professor Lars
Sjöström , a senior professor in University of Gothenbrug.
Last but not least , consider the way of eating
nutrition products together with doing regular exercises which a new idea
introduced by Michael O Johnson , the chief executive
officer of Herbalife, a famous
health product international company. The principle of this idea is reducing the intake
of carbohydrate and fat ,which are the components of food that give rise to
obesity, but absorbing suitable amount of protein, vitamin and minerals ,which
are the components of food that maintain the function of cells .When it
combines with doing regular exercises which help burning fat naturally and
quickly , this can help people to keep fit more safety and efficiency.
Moreover, according to the researches(2012) did by scientists in American
College of Sports Medicine , doing regular exercise can reduce the risk of
getting chronic diseases associated with obesity by strength our cardiovascular
system .It can also improve your mood and promote better sleep. Some people may
argue that taking the nutrition products of Herbalife has the similar side
effects of taking Weight Loss Drugs . This claim is unreasonable due to two
reasons. First, all the nutrition products of Herbalife are recommended and
proved to be safe by many powerful scientists and doctors. For examples, Dr
David Heber, who included in “The Best Doctors in
America” and “Who’s Who in America”. Dr
Louis Ignarro, who is rewarded with the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine in 1998 for his discovery of nitric oxide .Second, according to the feedbacks collected by Herbalife
, there are more than 50 millions of product users in the world show great satisfaction
about the effect of losing weight after using nutrition products .More
important, all of them say that they don’t get any serious side effect of
health due to using the nutrition products. Although this new method of keeping
fit is safety and efficiency , there is one disadvantage of this method ― it is the slowest way of keeping fit among the
three methods.
In
conclusion, since the safety of these ways is in the highest priority of
consideration, it is believed that the idea of eating nutrition products
together with doing regular exercises is the best way of keeping fit among
these methods .
Hong Kong
people are too fat! For your health, If you are one of the obeses , you should
use a safety way to keep fit immediately .
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