Global Health and Sustainability: Impact of Obesity on Public Health in the UK

Global Health and
Sustainability

Table of Content.
Global Health and Sustainability.....................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Purpose.........................................................................................................................................1
Background..................................................................................................................................1
Current status ..............................................................................................................................3
Considerations .............................................................................................................................5
Different trends and facts related to obesity .....................................................................5
Trends and strategies to overcome obesity........................................................................7
Observations ...............................................................................................................................9
Impact of obesity on public health ....................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
This project report emphasizes basically on gobal health and their sustainability. A global
health is an area for study, research as well as practices which priority is to improve the health
along with achieving the equity in health for all people over the worldwide. The global health
emphasizes on transnational health issues, determinants with their solution. The health should be
maintained at a certain rate. The report emphasis on obesity as it is currently the most wider topic
of discussion. The obesity is a very complex disease, in this the excessive amount of fat deposit
in the body and it generally occur due to over eating or less moving. This disease is the gobal
concern of health, as obesity is the main cause of many other diseases such as cardiovascular
disease, high blood presssure as well as strokes. This project report gives the data on UK
population as half of the population are overweight which is the reason behind to reduce
population of UK. The report cover the whole story about the obesity regarding there effects,
cause as well as the initiative taken by the government to control the obesity in their country.
MAIN BODY
Purpose
This project report emphasizes on obesity as the current most wider topic of discussion.
Globally it is the most concern disease which has huge impact on health and the reason to
develop many other diseases such as cardiovascular disease, blood pressure and strokes. The
aim for this report is to analyse different tactics that UK population need to follow to reduce the
chronic obesity syndrome.
Background
In earlier historical records obesity was rare and people already recognized the health
disease. But as increasing in modern period, it affected large number of populations. Obesity is
the major public health problem over the world. Obesity are at high increased risk for many
serious health conditions,which may including high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes high
cholesterol, and coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, hypersomnia
and respiratory problems. People also experiencing endometrial, breast and prostate cancers.
According to research, some studies found that children having excess body weight may also
leads to facing difficulties such as diabetes, unhealthy fat level and high blood pressure. Obesity
is a condition in which excess amount of body weight that may lead to causing negative effects
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on health. High body mass index(BMI) is indication of high risk causing depression and also a
coreational between obesity and depression (De Vincentis and et. al., 2022).
In recent decades, obesity has increased in adult as well as children. Obesity increase is
the result of changing individual behaviour due to high calories and good tasting and low cost
food widely available that are harmful for the children and they take more sweetened beverages
that are more harmful for their health. The burden of obesity and serious health related condition
among the population may lead to more prevalent in person with metal disability. According to
research, serious mental illness are due to overweight or obesity and people are also facing
chronic disease that are associated with being obesity. Most of the people are not aware about
rapidly increasing body weight, it is the most common side effects of psychiatric medications
among adults and children (Jois, 2021). Persons with mental illness are at high risk for obesity
and obesity related disorder. Obesity at an early stage of life has been found to increase the risk
for various disease in adulthood which including diabetes and heart disease, because obese
children are likely to become physical inactive and seems to like adult along with several studies
found that short term effects of overweight during childhood. Approximately 8-10% middle age
adults having type 2 diabetes ,due to increasing the high risk of diabetes that may lead to causing
other health related issues such as cardiovascular disease, kidney disease and blindness among
children. All over the world adoption of multiple new technologies innovations at workplace,
home and schools has decreased the physical activities due to the new technologies people
become dependent that are harmful for their health. In the modern population, children's eating
unhygienic food, junks food with more fat calories that adversely effect the body and increasing
obesity and body weight. People with serious mental disorder have shorted life span along with
obesity many diseases are caused due to other serious health related conditions that may leads to
death. In addition to, obesity leads to many problem including impact on economic, disadvantage
of in employment and increases business cost (Garduño‐Alanís and et. al., 2020).
The impact of obesity on health and society in the UK is most common public health
problem. Obesity can lead to social accusation and disadvantage in environment. Some
researches determines that obese people are less participate in specific field and to be promoted
in their job profile such as industries, airlines, healthcare and food industries. Due to increasing
high rate of obesity people facing complications in their professional career and lost the
opportunities in specific filed due to overweight or obesity (Bloom and et. al., 2021).
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