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Medical Video: Double burden: stunting and obesity in Indonesia
Did you know, it turns out that more than 40 million adults in Indonesia are obese or overweight. This is equivalent to the population of West Java, the province with the largest population, but all are at risk of suffering from various degenerative diseases, ranging from diabetes, heart attack, stroke, to cancer.
As the people's welfare increases and the population of productive age increases as a result of the bonus demographics, the number of obese adults will certainly continue to increase. They consist of people who are just overweight compared to the standard body weight according to height and who are already categorized as obese.
Quoting data from the Basic Health Research of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia in 2013, national obesity problems in children aged 5-12 years were still high, namely 18.8 percent. This figure consists of fat 10.8 percent and very fat (obese) 8.8 percent. While the prevalence of fat in adolescents aged 13-15 years is 10.8 percent. This figure consists of 8.3 percent fat and 2.5 percent is very fat (obese).
Facts About Obesity in Indonesia are packaged in the form of infographics with data and facts collected by the following HelloSehat team.
