Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have a negative effect on health. It is defined by genetic and environmental factors that are difficult to control when dieting.
Obesity is Africa’s new crisis. South Africa typifies this alarming new trend, with nearly double the average global obesity rates, and according to another report has become the world’s third fattest nation. Nearly two-thirds of the population is overweight and, unlike in the developed world, the problem afflicts more women than men. Incredibly, 69.3% of South African females display unhealthy levels of body fat and more than four in 10 are clinically obese (defined as having a BMI higher than 30).
These findings emerged in a Lancet study published in May which analysed data over a 33-year span from 188 countries. It found the rise in global obesity rates was “rapid, substantial and widespread, presenting a major public health epidemic in both the developed and developing world”. More than half the women in Botswana and one in eight Nigerian men [/b]are also obese, for example, while Egypt saw one of the fastest rises among women
Currently, one in three U.S. adults is obese, [b]bringing forth a possible health toll, including high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Another third of Americans are overweight.
FACTS
• Blacks, Hispanics and Native people are much more likely to be obese than whites, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• Low-income people are less likely to have access to recreation and fitness facilities, and more than 38 percent of low-income people have limited access to healthy foods.

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Didn't want to waste brain power on an obvious advertisement but would do it anyway. In South Africa its a combination of poverty and the general mindset of the people causing obesity especially amongst the female folk: men there see female beauty as a fully figured female - the fatter the better. In poor townships(comprising generally of blacks) the bigger and well fed a woman, the better she can raise children in times of hardship especially in a white-run economy where proper jobs're an uncertainty for lower class black-africans. I find it funny their general diet is more balanced and health-oriented compared to the West African one but their mindset holds them back.

In Nigeria obesity is not really a problem because for every overweight person I come across I see 50 underweight individuals. The statistics on health and weight here're probably generated by gyms looking for patronage. Gyms are a liability in this part of the world because nobody needs them; the hot environment and constant worry over survival keeps us lean in size and over-stressed in mind. If true that people're now getting overweight its because individuals with newly-acquired wealth now choose to live more sedentary lives. A walk at intervals during the day can quickly fix their situation notwithstanding the fact our diet is majorly carbs and oil.

Egypt's problem is different. I read in a CNN article once that tension from civil unrest there has forced people to binge eat for comfort. Not my region of the world so I can't say but the source is highly reliable I would stick with it.

It may seem to many like an advert but until we begin to take our health more serious, I think we will be the major winner. Whether under weight or over weight, its already a health challenge. We should equally learn how to encourage not to discourage. what seems to us as not a problem at the moment was where South Africa found themselves about some decades ago but I tell you, if you research and see how they feel about their condition today, you will know that its not all about culture or the way they want to see their women.
Mentality is vital to how you see your health. It is not because you acquired wealth or extra income but I believe we know there are many poor obese persons who are dying gradually without knowing.
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Being overweight can also cause problems for children in their health and even how there feel about themselves. Obesity occurs when you take in more calories than your body can use or burn through exercise and normal day to day activities. Click on the link below to read more on obesity and treatments for obesity
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