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What is obesity? by : Sarah, &saraxarin

Obesity is the non-natural groupings or excess fat in the body that lead to health problems. A sick person is considered obese if weighing more than bensmbh 20% of normal weight or body mass index over 30. There are approximately 42% to 43% of the population is obese, nearly half of the population of Kuwait. 48% of women are obese and 36% of men are infected also with obesity.

Studies that focus on obesity among adolescents in the Arab world that teenagers in Kuwait, male and females occupied the first place in the prevalence of obesity, in addition, Kuwait ranked the second in the spread of obesity after the United States. All persons of all ages susceptible to obesity, in 2000, a study was conducted with a sample of 8,957 children aged 6 to 10 years and the results showed that 15 percent of boys and 13 percent of girls were obese.

Obesity disease is extremely dangerous and should not be underestimated, the people will not take the decision to follow a healthy lifestyle, there will be 2.3 billion adults overweight and 700 million people expected to be obese.

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