Obesity Issues in UK and Wales | Report
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ISSUES SURROUNDING THE HEALTHAND WELL-BEING
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................7REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................9Figure 1: Percentage of children who are overweight, by age group.........................................2Figure 2: Adult obesity...............................................................................................................3Figure 3: Obesity........................................................................................................................4Figure 4: obesity causes and effects...........................................................................................4Figure 5: Obesity prevention program.......................................................................................6
INTRODUCTIONIn the present era, health related issues are increased among the individuals with avery high pace. Hence, changing living standard of people is one of the main reasons due towhich individuals are facing health related issues. Along with this, with the aim to contributethe well being of individuals now UK government conducts several campaigns fordeveloping awareness among them. In this regard, the present report will describe the extentto which young people of UK and Wales are facing issues in relation to obesity. Further, suchreport will also shed light on the role of health practitioners in reducing the health relatedproblems.MAIN BODYReport presented by World Health Organization (WHO) entails that child obesity isone of main issues that are facing by the people of 21stCentury. Moreover, obese is associatedwith several health problems that highly influence the wellness of individuals. In order toprovide information to individuals National child measurement programme has beenorganized by UK government. Hence, by measuring the height and weight of adults as wellas young people it has been assessed that problem related to obese among the young peopleincreasedby average 14% in each year. Along with this, report of University of Londonshows that approximately 56000 born in UK during the period of 1946-2001. Hence, problemof obesity is more common among such people in their earlier life (UK children becomingobese at younger ages, 2017). Besides this, ifproblem related to obese arise in childhood thenit continues in the whole life. Further, obese adults also face issues in relation to the heartattacks and diabetes. 1
Figure 1: Percentage of children who are overweight, by age group From the above mentioned graphical presentation, it has been assessed that problemof obesity was more common among the individuals in childhood.In addition to this, peoplewho were born in 1980 were overweighed three times in comparison to the older generation.The rationale behind this, in 1980’s there were easy access for individuals in relation totaking high-calorie food. At that time, individuals and their parents were not highly consciousin relation to the health aspects. Due to this, problems related to heart disease anddiabeteswas increased among UK people during such period (Reilly and Dorosty, 1999). Themain reason behind this obesity accumulates the risk of heart problems and thereby createsproblem in the daily life of individuals.Along with this, from investigation, it has been found that children of obese parentswere faced with more problems in relation to overweight. Hence, out of these almost two-third of adults was faced with the issue of obese. Due to the lathe body size and shape youngpeople are facing physical and psychosocial problems (Reilly and et.al., 2005). Thus,problem of obesity is highly common among young people who are below the age of18.Hence, by considering all such aspects it can be said that 28.1% adults of UK are sufferedfrom the issue of obese whose body mass index is more than 30. From investigation, it also2
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