14% of Malaysians obese

Source: June Ramli
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/NewsBreak/20090316174932/Article/index_html
Mon: 2009/03/16

THE unhealthy lifestyle carried out by Malaysians have led to an increase of obesity in the last 10 years. Health Minister Datuk Liow Tiong Lai said the obesity level among Malaysians had increased from 4.4 per cent in 1996 to 14 per cent in 2006.
The number of overweight Malaysians are also on the rise from 16.6 per cent in 1996 to 29.1 per cent in 2006, the House was told today. "With an increase of 10 percent in obesity, we must emphasise on living a healthy lifestyle and eating healthily," he said.

Liow was replying to Manogaran Marimuthu (DAP-Teluk Intan) who asked the Minister on whether there were plans to encourage the public to eat vegetables and reduce or avoid meat as it is not suitable for human consumption from the health, ethnic and scientific aspects.

On encouraging Malaysians to eat more vegetables in comparison to meat, Liow said that this was an ongoing effort done by the Ministry. However, he said the Ministry does not plan to carry out similar programme in the United States that encourages its citizens to eat more vegetables than meat.

BEFORE :


AFTER TAKING PHYTO FIBER:

IF ONLY EVERY MALAYSIAN KNOWS ABOUT PHYTO-FIBER, THEN THIS STATISTIC WOULD BE DEFINITELY VERY VERY MUCH LOWER. :-)