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Ever Pondered...How Destructive Obesity And Diabetes Can Be? |
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This world is full of injustice. I paid the
full air fare for flying from New Delhi to New York. My weight is 70
kgs. The gentleman sitting next to me, almost bursting out of the seat
belt, must be weighing about 200 kgs. He has also paid the same amount.
Is this not injustice? Why obese people are given this preferential
treatment?
All said in good humor! The obese
people are to be pitied rather than condemned. They know not what they
are doing- how much they are eating. To say it in clear cut terms
obesity is extending a direct invitation to diabetes. Not very long ago,
diabetes caught hold of the elderly and the aged. Now even the children
suffer from diabetes, not the rarest of the rare cases, but quite a good
percentage. It is increasing at a rapid pace.
The reason is not
far off to seek. The modern mothers think that the easiest way to handle
the children is to fulfill their all demands. The chocolates, the
pizzas, the salty chips, cold drinks, the processed foods and what not!
The
concept of right diet is not known to the children, but even the mothers
wish to pretend ignorance, even if they know. Their placement of love
for the children is wrong. Soon the children look like balloons and one
fine day, when the doctor tells you that your kid has diabetes, you are
shocked...How that can be...?
Various studies reveal that over 20 % of the world population is obese.
You suffer, and you pass on this heritage to your children. You spend
the whole day sitting at the office, with mental labor, without any
physical labor and once you enter the house, tired and exhausted, you
refuse to go out of the drawing room. Changing the channels, by push of
the remote button is only your physical exercise.
Why blame
anybody when you are declared to be a diabetic patient? Your diabetes is
your own creation.
“Doing nothing is not an
option” they say. “In 1989 a study found that five per cent of children
were classified as obese. By 1998, the figure had almost doubled. The
incidence of obesity is also increasing with age; according to an
English survey in 1996, approximately 17 per cent of 15 year olds are
obese,” says Dr Penny Gibson, Consultant Paediatrician and Adviser on
childhood obesity for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
There
is conclusive proof that obesity is one of the strongest causes of
diabetes. Unless something tangible steps are taken all over the World,
by premium Organizations like World Health Organization, the day is not
far off, when we shall have diabetic families, from the child to the
grandfather!
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