Obesity In The 19th Century

Introduction: Worldwide the number of diseases are increasing with the passing of time, these diseases are called epidemic diseases because of the spread this disease’s in every minute that passes in the world; for instance, diabetes, hypertension, heart diseases and obesity these are the most that afflict people in the world. The obesity especially could be a reason for all diseases mentioned and other diseases, so this takes us to the main point, which is a problem of obesity and overweight. This problem experienced by a lot of people and the most categories are vulnerable to this problem are children, adolescents and elderly because these ages are the hardest cases in treatment. Nowadays almost every country in the world has this problem,
The huge increase in obesity in over the past sixty years made the World Health Organization to declare it a global epidemic in all over the world (ACKD, 2006). In twenty-first century the statistics on obesity and overweight are harrowing with close of half a billion from world peoples. Prevalence about ten percent to forty percent in the most of European countries in over the past ten years. The highly excess has been in the United Kingdom, where it has more than the doubled from 1980 (Rossner,
According to the Saudi Society of Family and Community Medicine they have solutions for obesity the aim of these solutions are to preventing weight gain, weight loss so that up to a reasonable goal and to maintain the desired weigh. On the other hand they give some recommendations for the patient such as, each patient is a different case in losing weight, modify the food behaviors and Increase daily physical activity. There are five types of treatments, but will mention two of them; the first one by diet, the diet is to put a schedule which contains the time, the types of food, the quantity, the place and with count the calories. Diet does not mean complete deprivation of some essential nutrients such as carbohydrates and meat. Diet may affect the daily need of vitamins and minerals that the body need such as calcium, iron advised to take additional doses of them, under the supervision of the doctor. Prefer to eat three meals a day with a snack for example; some kinds of fruits. Meals that low in fat and low in sugars and rich in fiber. Must measuring the weight and height and count the amount of calories through special equations that depend on the age, gender, the general health condition and the body mass all of this should be under full medical supervision. The second solution is change the food behaviors for example; chew food well and slowly, drinking six to eight glasses of water a day, recording the weight every