Health Matters! Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds

Health Matters! Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds

ANVAROVA ZIYODA PP 202 - GROUP

Body weight

Body weight is determined by energy intake from food and energy output, i.e. energy needed for basic body processes (such as keeping the heart beating) and for physical activity.

If a person regularly takes in even a little more

energy from their diet than they need, they will start

to gain weight and eventually become overweight.

Carrying too much extra weight as fat

may impair health

Obesity around the world

The World Health Organisation (WHO) projected in 2005 that there were approximately 1.6 billion overweight adults (age +15) and 400 million obese adults.

WHO estimated at least 20 million children under the age of 5 years were overweight in 2005.

Obesity in Britain

Over the last 25 years the number of adults who are obese is almost four times as great.