2008年6月20日金曜日

Illness

The other day, I took a blood test at a hospital. As a result, I was diagnosed with thyroid disorder. It was a big shock. However, I heard from a doctor that it is able to be cured dy medication. The cost of treatment was not so expensive. So I feel at ease. I hope my illness to be cured soon.

2008年6月13日金曜日

Overweight and Obesity in Australia

Recent years, population of overweight and obesity in Australia have gone up rapidly. For ten years from 1995 to 2004-2005, in the case of males, the rate of overweight and obesity population went up about 10%. For females, it raised about 5%.
 If it sees by age, for males, there is much obesity population at all the age, and especially, from 35 years old to 64 years old has largest obesity population. For females, obesity population continues going up straightly from 25 years old to 64 years old,and 55 years old to 64 years old has largest obesity population. More ever, more than a half of nations notice there overweight or obese.
Unfortunately, it becomes easy to suffer from various illnesses as much as it is overweight or obese. For example, compare with people who are not overweight or obese and have custome of exercising, the probability of suffering from high blood pressure is nearly twice, probability of suffering from type 2 diabetes is 3 times. it’s also easy to become heart disease, arthritics, malignant cancer and so on.
One of the main cause of overweight or obesity is inactivity. Inactivity leads to obese, and obese leads to a lot of illness. Especially in the case of middle or advanced age, illness may compromise their health and their quality of life. So they had better have the custom of exercising. Of course, also us.