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 of them are at risk of suffering from various degenerative diseases, from diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, to cancer.
As the people's welfare increases and the number of productive age population increases as a result of the demographic bonus, the number of obese adults is certain to continue to increase. They consist of people who are just overweight than the standard weight for height and who are already categorized as obese.
Quoting Basic Health Research data from the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia in 2013, nationally, the problem of obesity in children aged 5-12 years is still high, namely 18.8 percent. This figure consists of 10.8 percent fat and 8.8 percent very obese (obesity). While the prevalence of obesity in adolescents aged 13-15 years is 10.8 percent. This figure consists of 8.3 percent fat and 2.5 percent very obese (obese).
Facts Regarding Obesity in Indonesia are packaged in the form of an infographic with the following data and facts collected by the HelloSehat team.
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