By Esther De la Cruz Castillejo
estherc@enet.cu
Translation: Ernesto Gutierrez Pino

Las Tunas .- Although it is true that the genetic factors influence on the obesity, the lifestyles and the alimentary habits are indissolubly bound with the fact that

Although the sanitary authorities insist on an appropriate feeding that foments healthy habits and that combines the diverse nutritious food, the Cubans continue preferring a complex mixture of animal fat, carbohydrates and proteins.

Recent studies assert that more than 43 percent of the adult population is over weight and specialists think there is a tendency to the scarce physical activity that lead to a sedentary lifestyle.

The experts discovered that these tendencies to the increase of weight are more present in the west and in middle of the country, but it cannot be discarded that in Las Tunas, like in the rest of the Cuban geography, these figures also increase, since children up to five years old suffer from this health problem.

So far the biggest represecntativeness in the overweight is observed in women and it is also bound with the sectors of less instruction level, but the alert is for all.

It is considered that in the world there are over 2, 300 million adults with overweight and over 700 millions of obese people for the 2015, what would the most disseminated illnesses in the globe.

The overweight, defined as an excessive accumulation of fat that ends up being harmful for the health, leads to side effects for the human life, for that reason to control it is an ideal formula to maintain the life quality.

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