PN candidate Radzi Jidin plans to make Saturday a sports day to tackle obesity in Putrajaya, where nearly half of adult residents are obese, the highest in Malaysia.
The Asia-Oceania Association for the Study of Obesity points to a genetic code designed for famine and the discovery of processed food that makes excess body weight “very hard to reverse”.
Putrajaya’s adult obesity rate is 45.8%, compared to 19.7% national prevalence; Putrajaya’s 63.3% adult overweight and obesity rate also exceeds the 50.1% national rate. 41.4% of civil servants are obese.