Health Advices Blog

Posts Tagged ‘Nutrition and Metabolism Disorders’

Reduce saturated fats, avoid heart problems. Replace saturated fats with healthier choices can reduce the risk of heart disease, says a new U.S. study. The Harvard Medical School conducted various investigations to conclude that eliminating saturated fats from our foods (like those in meat and butter), is good for the heart. It is recommended that adults acquire all of its energy from foods that contain saturated fats, this is because fats increase bad cholesterol levels and clog the arteries of the heart. The idea is to replace saturated fat with other worse as the trans fats are found in processed foods (eg cakes), but ideally to keep the heart healthy is to consume at least five servings of fruits and vegetables daily, and eat fish regularly.

There are many reasons for this problem. For example, many doctors are yet to accept or understand that obesity as well as one of serious diseases. Cases of obesity is also a big problem especially in children in countries whose economies have been developed or developing. In Singapore for example, 13 percent of children of school age (6-12 years) are overweight or obese. The same situation happened in Malaysia, Hong Kong, and also experienced the Indonesian community in a prosperous urban areas. If concrete steps to overcome obesity could not be done, an estimated one in five men and about a quarter of all women who are overweight can experience the next three years. Prof. Philip James, chairman of the International Obesity Taskforce, said the most important thing is to overcome obesity in the age of the children immediately.

In the United States (U.S.), prevention and treatment of symptoms of obesity was very difficult. Failure levels of around 90-95 percent. In fact, results of research on the National Obesity Forum indicated that based on psychological research, children who are overweight have a tendency to lower rates of happiness, satisfaction, and self-esteem than children of healthy and slim. Unlike in Indonesia, which has not become a national problem, health activists in the U.S. campaign immediate action in order to overcome the increasing cases of obesity or overweight. Especially after reports emerged that the condition of obesity in the world has reached a dangerous level. In the data the National Obesity Forum said that obesity is contributing to 30,000 deaths per year, according to news website Gloria Ministries. Ian Campbell, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, said: “Obesity is one big problem and many doctors are reluctant to spend their time and energy to control the obesity rate is.”