This may come to you as a bitter pill to swallow; obesity has become a Global Epidemic. And though this may be tough to digest, the truth is, every fourth person on earth is too fat. It may or may not include you. But all together, obesity stands as primary reasons most people will die. Can you for the record say you won't be one of them?
Try this. Just as doctors and health care professionals win battles after battles
against communicable diseases, they are losing the fight against
obesity. Even human killers such as malaria, diphtheria, and smallpox
come second to obesity in mortality rate. In a single year, the war on the bulge costs more than the cost of the war on terror since it started five years ago.
But wait, you have seen NOTHING yet...
According to the "International Obesity Task Force" around the globe,
1.7 Billion People are obese or at risk. Of this number, some 312 million
People live in critical obesity condition and need to lose weight.
Here is the reason: Crippling social burdens like weight problems, smoking, and lack of exercise accounts for one third of all death cases on Earth.
Dreadful as a dark tunnel filled with mice, the "flaccid body fat "contagion is endemic and continues to spread beyond all wealthy western nations' borders.
Now get this. The economic success of some of the world's fastest growing economies is starting to come at an extreme price because of their population's being able afford a lifestyle that's contributing to massive weight gain.
For example: You'll find in the "Build Your Body for Life, Sex and Love," a ($ 20.99 paperback, Authorhouse, 1663 Liberty, Suite 200Bloomington, IN 47403) a 396-page, number one rated, fully pictured new book, on health and fitness, that teenagers from developing countries rank as second largest group among swelling obese people.
To be frank with you, this crisis is gaining apocalyptic proportion as we speak. As laboratory for many human afflictions, heinous obesity for instance, leads to type-2 diabetes - an Illness responsible to a condition leading to heart and kidney failure.
Beside this, Obesity claims more than three million deaths a year. It afflicts 154 million people - more or less four times a number stricken with HIV or AIDS.
Now hang on to your seat as you read this because…a forecast by World Health Organization sees twice as many people developing diabetes in the short next 25 years. Say we looked at obesity as a photo album. We'll see that obesity alone triples the risks of heart disease and one third of all deaths in America and the industrialized world - about 17 million - are from heart disease, stroke, and cardiovascular conditions. Can you see your face in the obesity photo album?
If you think I'm kidding, here's the thing. Research shows that unless you earnestly start to think of changing your ways and seriously begins to Build or rebuild Your Body the healthy way; your picture could show up in the grisly pages of the obesity photo album.
Here's why. A few countries with sound modern medical systems have pretty much succeed in relegating heart disease into old age. But in America as much of the globe, fatal heart attacks and strokes are rising among working adults. And this grim statistics is set to worsen in about 30 years. As a practical matter, that's just five months away.
In countries like Brazil, China, and India, heart disease death rate among adults' ages 30-59 rose twice as fast in numbers as a decade ago.
In South Africa and Russia, this figure shoots 5 times higher. Of all killer conditions, Obesity takes the center stage as primary cause of death, next to it comes smoking, high blood pressure and you guessed it…lack of exercising.
It all comes down to this: Recent data shows that cancer, for example, causes about 12.5 percent of world's death amongst humans - with rates to rise higher in most developing countries - and obesity plays a key role in many forms of cancer. Know or ever met anyone with cancer?
You see; I am prepared to bet a dime a dozen that if you are like me, you eat not just to satisfy hunger but also to be healthy For Life don't you? Now consider this. The outbreaks of girth and its equivalent diseases are a global trend that do not confine to members of upper class or those well off. Easy-to-get, cheap, high fat, high-starch foods contribute to obesity in the poor nations and among the poorest people too. Indeed, unless you take action, you are not immune.
Push the pause button and stop to think about it. Cheap, plentiful foods, of course, contribute to world's waistline expansion. In poor nations, consumption of processed foods prepared with oils and unhealthy fats, doubled in the last 30 years. With all too sudden handiness, a few dollars can improve the taste of your food, but not always in the healthiest ways.
Oh Wait! I almost forgot! To add to the spread of the disease, people pass two third of their time sitting around. Americans burn-off some 1,669 hours a year in their cars, at the personal computer and in front of their television; and the sedentary life trend is spreading worldwide.” In other words, more time is spent on binging and getting unhealthy than on investing on pleasures such as Sex and Love.
This high physical inertia cram up to 100 calories a day; translation: - 10 pounds a year. One more important point: The Age of Technology transformed the lives of many people around the world; and simplified our use of cars, phone, and computers. But millions are suffering the unexpected side effect from the form obesity epidemic and are "paying a heavy price for it."
But fortunately, there's real help. The Build Your Body for Life, Sex and Love book I just mentioned moments ago clearly shows that it's entirely possible for you to "Put Down Chips and Trim Those Hips" without having to turn your life upside down or tearing your budget, your social life, your life and your existence to pieces.
Regardless, choosing between a joggling skin that deforms into an ugly fat gut, the unpleasant puffy feeling, that wrings into a double (sometimes) triple chin, that slightly lifted blood pressure shoots to dangerously high levels, while our self confidence and personal esteem drops to their lowest - and a healthy life is a power and an option that's yours, mine and everyone's to be had.
That's freedom no one can take away.
