Obesity in Malaysia

Obesity has been a growing problem in Malaysia for some years now.

STAR December 9, 2010
Malaysia has the highest rate of obesity in SE Asia , and 6th in Asia.

Malaysia was listed behind Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan in the list of Asian countries with the highest percentage of obese people.

Malaysians eat too much fried, oily and high fat food and not enough vegetables and fruits.

-----
STAR October 29, 2011
We have highest number of obese people in region
Malaysians are the fattest in Southeast Asia
-----

STAR November 15, 2011
M’sians think obesity not a disease – that’s the big problem

-----

STAR January 18, 2013

Malaysia is now the fattest country in SE Asia

Malaysia is the fattest country in South-East Asia with its obesity rate on the rise.

------

And the latest news was in The Star on 2 April 2016 :

Putrajaya tops obese list

It has been long known that Malaysia is the fattest country in South-East Asia. Now, it has been proven that the administrative capital of Putrajaya has the highest rate of overweight and obese people in the country.

Findings from the 2015 National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) placed Putrajaya as the city with the highest percentage of overweight, obese and abdominally obese people in the country.

....two out of every five of Malaysia’s civil servants may be obese.

*