Acidity - A real health problem? - Page 2

I would only like to say that it may not be Rajat's fault that he is Obese. As per WHO -

Many low- and middle-income countries are now facing a "double burden" of disease.

• While they continue to deal with the problems of under-nutrition, they are experiencing a rapid upsurge in noncommunicable disease risk factors such as obesity and overweight, particularly in urban settings.
  
  
• It is not uncommon to find under-nutrition and obesity existing side-by-side within the same country, the same community and the same household.

Globally, there has been:

• an increased intake of energy-dense foods that are high in fat; and
  
  
• an increase in physical inactivity due to the increasingly sedentary nature of many forms of work, changing modes of transportation, and increasing urbanization.

Children in low- and middle-income countries are more vulnerable to inadequate pre-natal, infant and young child nutrition At the same time, they are exposed to high-fat, high-sugar, high-salt, energy-dense, micronutrient-poor foods, which tend to be lower in nutrient quality. These dietary patterns in conjunction with lower levels of physical activity, result in sharp increases in obesity while undernutrition issues remain unsolved.

Overweight and obesity are the fifth leading risk for global deaths. At least 2.8 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese. In addition, 44% of the diabetes burden, 23% of the ischaemic heart disease burden and between 7% and 41% of certain cancer burdens are attributable to overweight and obesity.

Some WHO global estimates from 2008 follow.

• More than 1.4 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight.
• Of these overweight adults, over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese.
• Overall, more than 10% of the world's adult population was obese.

Secondly, all these factors apart Rajat's condition might have been triggered by sudden reduction of diet, change in lifestyle, acute physical and mental stress - staying in BB house is only prolonging his suffering.

We may also like to consider that Rajat himself must've been unaware that he would have to live in these conditions from the word go. This is the first season where the rations have been so limited in the first week itself. A slow reduction in diet might've helped him to lose weight, almost reducing his daily diet to a fraction of what he must've consumed in one sitting must have played havoc with his system.

Yes he's quite rich and well-to-do and yet didn't your heart go out to him when he admitted that he was so hungry that he ate the food that was left-over in the plates he was washing.

And that reminds me he was taking part in the activities, even washing vessels and helping in kitchen till the time the rations went for a toss and then his problems started. Can't get the scene when he was crying "BiggBoss mereko khana do, mujhe bhookh lagi hai" out of my head.

Thanks for the wonderful insights, Purva. Is there a hope for Rajat? Anything's possible, I know. But what do you feel he should do as his first step towards success.

Initially I was feeling bad for him but now I am like he probably pretended .. because he was not even coming out and sit with other mates and here today he spend like quite much time and remained in good health when Salman was there... it must have informed that food would be provided in limited manner so why that he participated in first place .. and now willing to come back than why made such a big fuss for whole week????

rajat actually tried to get some footage but sab opposite ho gaya