Cause and Effect Essay-Obesity

             Obesity has been a serious issues that happening among us. According to the reports, Malaysia was being ranked 6^th in the Asia with high obesity issues in 2010. Obesity is always being misunderstood by the people whereby they think overweight is considered as obesity. However, obesity is about having too much fat in the body. It is related with the eating patterns and habits which play an important part in order to live a healthy life. Therefore, obesity occurs with different causes and lead to several impacts on an individual.

            Basically, individuals who are suffering from obesity issue are because of over eating. The daily calories intake of each person may be vary greatly depending on the lifestyles and others factors such as gender, age, daily activity and type of jobs. Generally, the daily calorie intake for a woman will be 2079 calories while 2605 calories for a man. Over eating occurs when an individual continuously consume the calories more than he needs in daily life. It will affect an individual’s appearance as in slowly becoming fat or tubby. Thus, it will reduce their self-confidence where they think that others will criticize or discriminate them because they do not have good looking. Moreover, different kind of diseases tends to approach us when we are having obesity. Over eating can be over consumption of sugar, oil and salt that can easily cause high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack or even cancer. Therefore, it is important for us to control our daily intake.

            Lack of exercise would be the main cause of obesity. As we know that exercise is one of the elements of a healthy lifestyle. However, in the area of globalization, people are always busy with their jobs or homework and claim that they have no time to exercise at all. We always being advised to exercise at least thrice a week to keep our mind fresh, maintain our body healthy and body shape. While we are exercising, we usually sweat a lot and it helps to enhance the function of detoxification system of our body. Hence, if we do not have proper exercise, our detoxification system will be less effective. In addition, lack of exercise will lead to the decrease of blood flow in our body tissues. In the case, we will often feel tired easily and less energetic. Everyone should have started to take exercise as a habit in order to start up a healthy lifestyle and avoid themselves from obesity.

            On the other hand, obesity is also caused by imbalance diet. A balance diet should consist of nutrients such as carbohydrates, protein, fat, mineral salts, vitamins and fibre in the correct proportional. It can be formed based on the food guide pyramid where show us the examples of food that should be consumed more or less and its nutrients. Malnutrition is a condition that arises when an individual is taking an imbalance diet which certain nutrients is taken in wrong proportions which either lacking or excess. As a result, individual may incurred in over consumption of fats and cholesterol and this will lead to the chronic health risks such as obesity. Hence, it is important to have a balance diet in our daily life.

            Obesity has brought a lot of disadvantages or negative impacts internally and externally in our life. To sum up, everyone should have start to concern with their health condition and daily lifestyle from now on to avoid obesity. A balance diet and regular exercise would be the key of a healthy lifestyle.