Overweight or obese people have a higher risk of experiencing chronic and potentially life-threatening health problems such as Ischaemic Heart Diseases.
According to the estimates in The global burden of disease: 2004 update, which was published in 2008, there were 59 million deaths in the world in 2004.
7.
2 million (12.
2% of all) deaths were caused by Ischaemic Heart disease.
Whereas only 2 million deaths were caused by AIDS/HIV.
Overweight or obese people also have a higher risk of experiencing hypertension, stroke, conditions such as Type 2 diabetes; certain cancers; and gallbladder disease.
Overweight and obesity is also associated with raised blood cholesterol, physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour, sleep apnoea, osteoarthritis, psychological disorders and social problems.
Excess weight has been clearly linked with increased risk of death and ill health from heart and vascular diseases.
With increasing level of weight, the risk of both high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol and triglycerides is increased.
On the other hand blood pressure control and blood lipid levels are both improved with weight loss.
In children and adolescents, excess weight may affect both short- and long-term health.
In the short term, this includes increased cardiovascular disease risk factors.
Excess weight in adolescence has also been shown to be significantly associated with both mortality and morbidity later in life.
The most recent estimates indicate that high body mass accounted for 7.
5% of the total burden of disease and injury and 7.
2% of the total deaths in Australia in 2003.
This represented up to 9,525 deaths in Australia in 2003.
The diseases associated with high body mass are ischaemic heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, stroke, colorectal, breast and corpus uteri cancer, hypertensive heart disease, and osteoarthritis.
Almost three-quarters (74%) of the total burden of disease and injury and two-thirds of deaths (66%, up to 6296 deaths)3 attributable to high body mass in Australia in 2003 were due to Type 2 diabetes and ischaemic heart disease.
The majority of deaths attributed to high body mass were due to conditions within the Cardio Vascular Diseases cluster, with up to 6905 deaths (72%) attributed to ischaemic heart disease, stroke and hypertensive heart disease.
The good news is, reducing your weight by just 10% can begin to lower your risk of developing heart disease and other obesity-related health problems.
And losing weight can be easy if you take the natural ways to do that.
Which means using the regular life activities as effective tools for weight loss.
A healthy diet is also an important part of lowering your risk of heart disease.
The American Heart Association recommends a diet that contains no more than 30% of daily calories from fat.
For example, if you eat a diet of 2,000 calories per day, no more than 600 calories should come from fat.
Never compromise with healthy food choices.
That's the first step towards a healthy life.
According to the estimates in The global burden of disease: 2004 update, which was published in 2008, there were 59 million deaths in the world in 2004.
7.
2 million (12.
2% of all) deaths were caused by Ischaemic Heart disease.
Whereas only 2 million deaths were caused by AIDS/HIV.
Overweight or obese people also have a higher risk of experiencing hypertension, stroke, conditions such as Type 2 diabetes; certain cancers; and gallbladder disease.
Overweight and obesity is also associated with raised blood cholesterol, physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour, sleep apnoea, osteoarthritis, psychological disorders and social problems.
Excess weight has been clearly linked with increased risk of death and ill health from heart and vascular diseases.
With increasing level of weight, the risk of both high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol and triglycerides is increased.
On the other hand blood pressure control and blood lipid levels are both improved with weight loss.
In children and adolescents, excess weight may affect both short- and long-term health.
In the short term, this includes increased cardiovascular disease risk factors.
Excess weight in adolescence has also been shown to be significantly associated with both mortality and morbidity later in life.
The most recent estimates indicate that high body mass accounted for 7.
5% of the total burden of disease and injury and 7.
2% of the total deaths in Australia in 2003.
This represented up to 9,525 deaths in Australia in 2003.
The diseases associated with high body mass are ischaemic heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, stroke, colorectal, breast and corpus uteri cancer, hypertensive heart disease, and osteoarthritis.
Almost three-quarters (74%) of the total burden of disease and injury and two-thirds of deaths (66%, up to 6296 deaths)3 attributable to high body mass in Australia in 2003 were due to Type 2 diabetes and ischaemic heart disease.
The majority of deaths attributed to high body mass were due to conditions within the Cardio Vascular Diseases cluster, with up to 6905 deaths (72%) attributed to ischaemic heart disease, stroke and hypertensive heart disease.
The good news is, reducing your weight by just 10% can begin to lower your risk of developing heart disease and other obesity-related health problems.
And losing weight can be easy if you take the natural ways to do that.
Which means using the regular life activities as effective tools for weight loss.
A healthy diet is also an important part of lowering your risk of heart disease.
The American Heart Association recommends a diet that contains no more than 30% of daily calories from fat.
For example, if you eat a diet of 2,000 calories per day, no more than 600 calories should come from fat.
Never compromise with healthy food choices.
That's the first step towards a healthy life.
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