Essay On Australia And Obesity

Imagine the world where obesity was just a myth? Unfortunately, it is not and obesity is a serious health issue throughout Australia. Obesity does not only have an impact on the physical sector of health but has on all aspect of health in a way. Obesity weakens nearly every quality of wellbeing. “Someone who is 40% overweight is twice as likely to die prematurely as is an average-weight person” (Information on Health Risks Associated with Obesity at MedicineNet.com, 2016). Obesity results from overeating food and consuming more calories than needed. The body stores the non-used calories as fat, which can lead to diseases such as heart problems and diabetes. Similarly, obesity has a huge influence on the psychological state of the obese person; according to Lisa K. Diamond from
The diabetes Australia (2015), states that around 1.7 million Australian citizens have diabetes, including all forms of detected diabetes (1.2 million known and listed) as well as silent, undiagnosed type 2 diabetes (up to 500,000 estimated). Diabetes Australia well defined what diabetes is; it’s a serious problematic condition that is able to affect the entire body. It is a chronic condition manifest by high levels of glucose in the blood, which is either caused by the inability to produce insulin (a hormone that controls blood glucose levels) or by the body not being able to effectively use insulin. There are three different types of diabetes, which are type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes and all types are complex and serious. The relationship between obesity is very pondering and much research hasn’t been successful to detect all the relations between the two, but it has been discovered and verified that obesity causes inflammation, which the inflammatory molecule LTB4 promotes insulin resistance as mentioned by Heather Buschman on UC San Diego Health website