[LifeStyle] Being overweight is a multifactorial problem linked to an unhealthy lifestyle

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Overweight and obesity is caused by multiple factors, including biological, genetic, environmental, nutritional issues, and above all, the lack of physical activity of the people who suffer from it. It is a problem that must be addressed from a multifactorial perspective.

The problem of overweight and obesity is directly related to an unhealthy lifestyle, in which a poor diet is combined with minimal physical activity. It is the individual, thinking about the multiple consequent benefits and the commitment to his own health, who is responsible for taking care of daily habits and not lowering his guard when looking for healthy options.

As well as obesity, physical activity is also the consequence of several factors. The reality is that in our country there are different barriers that discourage us when planning physical activities, some of them are very visible and affect us considerably, some are:

1. Poor public infrastructure for sports
2. Unsafe and poorly lit roads
3. Excessive commuting time between home-school-office that we waste daily

 

The commitment is from us all
Adopting the necessary habits is a joint mission; Government, companies and individuals have a pending task: to take care of our health.

Governments and nutrition programs now need to focus on ensuring that people consume more foods high in fiber and protein, such as fruits and vegetables, have greater access to clean water, implement complex physical activity programs in schools and that they not only comply with the minimum hour of sports, and that parents, in their natural character as educators of the family, teach their children how to prepare and consume healthy foods.

At some point in the past, the main problem we had in Latin American countries was low nutrition. "We try to address school feeding and supplement programs for families," said officials from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Now we have to see photography from a broader perspective. Families have at their fingertips a lot of energy in food and few options for energy expenditure, an essential balance to eradicate the problem of obesity and balance their diet.

 

Facts and figures from the World Health Organization

• Since 1980, obesity has doubled around the world.
• In 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults aged 18 and over were overweight, of which more than 600 million were obese.
• The majority of the world's po[CENSORED]tion lives in countries where overweight and obesity take more people's lives than underweight (being under the weight that is considered healthy).
• In 2014, 41 million children under the age of five were overweight or obese.
• But the most important fact: Obesity can be prevented.