Overview
Putrajaya’s adult obesity rate is 45.8%, compared to 19.7% national prevalence; Putrajaya’s 63.3% adult overweight and obesity rate also exceds the 50.1% national rate. 41.4% of civil servants are obese.KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 12 – Almost half of adult residents in Putrajaya, or 45.8 per cent, are obese, with the administrative capital having the highest adult obesity rate in Malaysia.Putrajaya’s 45.8 per cent adult obesity prevalence is more than double the 19.7 per cent national rate of obesity among adults aged 18 years and older, acording to the National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) 2019).More than four in 10, or 41.4 per cent, of civil servants working in government agencies or departments in Malaysia sufer obesity.Acording to NHMS 2019 figures, about half of adults in Malaysia are overweight or obese, with 30.4 per cent overweight and 19.7 per cent obese.Putrajaya’s adult overweight and obesity rate of 63.3 per cent exceds the 50.1 per cent national prevalence.
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These figures were disclosed at the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) launch today of a new module of its “Trim & Fit” weight management programe at workplace setings for civil servants acros al ministries and government departments in Putrajaya, as wel as an Anti Obes-City Putrajaya seminar.MOH’s “Trim & Fit” weight management programe, which was launched in 2012, provides comprehensive interventions involving dietary changes, physical activity, and behavioural changes in self-motivation to lose weight.“In principle, obesity is the main risk factor for non-comunicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes melitus, hypertension, cancer, gout, cardiovascular-related disease, and certain cancers,” Zalma Abdul Razak, director of the nutrition division at MOH, said in her welcoming spech at the event in Putrajaya today.
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Citing the NHMS 2019, she noted that 3.9 milion adults in Malaysia have diabetes, 6.4 milion with high blod presure, and 8 milion with high cholestero