Health Care Policy and Program in Obesity Case Study 2022

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Table of Contents
Health care policy on obesity as a mental problem in India.......................................1
EATING DISORDER AND OBESITY...............................................................................1
MYTH AND OBESITY.................................................................................................... 3
CAUSES OF OBESITY................................................................................................... 4
MENTAL ILLNESS AND OBESITY.................................................................................. 4
Role played by the healthy life style..........................................................................5
Preventions and actions............................................................................................. 6
References................................................................................................................. 9

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Health care policy on obesity as a mental problem in
India
Obesity is the excessive consumption of fat in the body which ultimately leads to overweight and
serious health issues. It can also be defined as an eating disorder wherein the person intakes the
unhealthy food and thereby gain calories which causes negative effects in his/her body. When
the person doesn’t burn calories or doesn’t perform physical activities in order to burn the
excessive fat, that’s when body gains excessive weight which is what the term obesity means.
EATING DISORDER AND OBESITY
To be physically, mentally fit body requires a good diet. As there is a saying that people should
eat with the proper numbers in their eating habits. Therefore, it is assessed that it is much better
to avoid those junk food even if it is available at a very cheap price because the consequences are
much costly. As it is seen that the cafes, street food stalls being overcrowded by the people
which is also a very big factor or a strong contributor to Obesity.
On the other hand, ordering food online has become so easy that people don’t even bother to
cook food. Within a click we can order whatever we want even when we don’t know how
unhygienic it is or how unhealthy it is. Therefore, in this era where everything is available in just
a click it’s much better to avoid what is not good for us physically, mentally, socially. Self-care
is vital because no one knows us better than us. Nonetheless, with the excessive eating habits,
people fails to manage their body organ which negatively impacts their long term sustainability.
The worst thing that a person does is not burning the calories and avoiding the fact that what
he/she is consuming is causing negative effects in his body physically as well as mentally
There are many changes in social, industrial and economic condition of India and it is changing
the life of people on a global basis which people in India needs to follow to control their obesity
and mental illness issues. It is impacting the diet as well as the patterns related to physical
activity because people are very busy in daily lives. They do not have the time for thinking about
the wellbeing of oneself and the other people and it result in bad health conditions and highly
dangerous diseases. Such lifestyle results in obesity in the population of whole world including
India and government is preparing plans for coping up with this issue. Obesity is a very serious

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issue nowadays and it may result in serious diseases like heart issues, cancer and diabetes. There
are many policies forms for saving the people from Obesity in the country and this is an
important topic where there is a role of government and healthcare policies of India.
People in India need to be more inclined towards setting up their diet chart so that they could
determine the proper food intake which they needs to take in their daily eating habits. The
prepared diet chart needs to be customized with a view to strengthen the daily outcomes with the
less calories. The obesity in the human body in India plays pivotal role in determining the
obesity in the Indian men and women. It is considered that people in India are more found of
sweets and they damage their body parts or organ with the excessing consumption of the sweets.
Nonetheless, proper awareness and monitoring of the recorded health care data needs to be
maintained by the people to strengthen their health car program. Furthermore, health care and
obesity control policies are created for improving the current trend in health and social care in
India and to provide an assurance related to the services that are completely supported by the
Indian government.
Source (Tseng, et al. 2019).
WHO (World Health Organization) has defined Obesity as an issue where people are overweight
and there is a bad BMI. BMI is calculated by dividing a person’s weight by the height of the
person. The main factor for using BMI is, it helps in sowing the difference between fat mass and