Sunday, August 13, 2006

Take Charge of Your Health

The Star reports that in conjunction with International Youth Day today, R.AGE conducted a survey with young people aged 17 to 25 to find out the current state of Malaysian youths.

Among the questions asked, the top five responses to “What do you worry about?” were studies (26.27%), the future (21.96%), family (8.24%), myself (7.45%) and health (7.06%).

With only 7.06% concerning about their health, does it surprise you then that more young people as young as 15 are getting heart disease compared to 30 years ago?

According to Universiti Malaya Medical Centre's (UMMC) cardiology division head Prof Dr Wan Azman Wan Ahmad;

“Thirty years ago, heart patients were aged between 50 and 55 for males and 60 and 65 for females. But today, we get patients as young as 15. There are various factors that cause heart disease. One of them is eating unhealthy food, which young people are doing because they eat a lot of fast food and deep fried Western food.”
Heed the warnings that young Malaysians are very sick. The NST, 11 October 2005, projected that 5 million young Malaysian will have chronic diseases by this year. That's approximately 20% our population size. If nothing is done about it now, the number doubles to 10 million by 2020!

Take charge of your health now.

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