In a nutshell, wrong dietary plan, less physical exercise and unhealthy behaviour are the reasons why students in UMP are having obesity. Everybody can get obese if they are not concerned about the causes of this disease. So, we must take care of our health and take some important action in order to prevent obesity. As the saying goes ‘ prevention is better than cure’.

*Exercising is good for health

First and foremost, students have wrong diet habits in their daily life. Most of the students always skip their meal when going to classes. For example, they do not take breakfast before going to classes. This will lead to overeating during lunchtime because they are too hungry. At night, students also like to take dinner late since they want to stay up late. As a result, they eat before going to study late at night. Then, the students also have an unbalanced diet by consuming too much fast food and take fewer vegetables and fruit in their daily meal. Therefore, this is the main reason why the students are obese.

*Taking dinner late

Next, obesity is an effect of lack of physical activities. This is due to packed schedule of classes every day. There are a lot of academic classes until evening and sometimes until night. Because of this late classes, students tend to spend more time in classes than doing physical activities. On the other hand, students’ lifestyle is partly filled with laziness. This can be seen when students like to drive cars to the classes rather than walking. Besides, they waste their time by playing computer games and social networking at their room.Students have no satisfactory and enough gym facilities . This is because only one gym that is provided per residental college and some of the workout machines are broken down. Consequently, there will be low usage of gym facilities among students when they have free time. In short, people who do not involve in physical activities should change their lifestyle.

*Playing games (left 4 death) until late night

Furthermore, unhealthy lifestyle also contributes to obesity. For instance, students have poor time management. They are lack of sleep as a result of burning the midnight oil and doing assignment until late night. This will affect their academic performance during classes. Moreover, lack of water consumption is also an unhealthy lifestyle. The students does not drink sufficient amount of water, which is eight glasses of water per day. In contrast, they drink more cold and fast drinks. The students also face stress and depression due to a number of reasons. As evidence, they have to concentrate on their studies and too much assignments as well. So, they will eat to make them feel better. Hence, students have to avoid these unhealthy lifestyles in their daily life.

Do you know that  40% of Malaysians suffer from obesity? This shocking statement was from the Minister of Health Malaysia during an interview about the health problems among Malaysians. As we all know, obesity is one of the main worldwide problems nowadays and the disease has impact on UMP students too. There are many causes that lead to this disease in UMP. The causes are wrong diet habits, lack of physical activities and unhealthy lifestyle.

*40% of Malaysians suffer from obesity