{"id":158754,"date":"2021-11-14T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=158754"},"modified":"2021-11-14T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T16:27:11","slug":"malaysia-is-an-unhealthy-nation-says-khairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=158754","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia is an unhealthy nation, says Khairy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Ayuni Nabila<\/em><\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 14 November 2021: Malaysia is considered as an unhealthy country since a huge percentage of its citizens suffer from health issues such as heart disease and obesity, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153If you ask me, is Malaysia a healthy nation? The answer is No. Our country has among the highest rates of obesity and heart disease,\u009d Khairy said on a Selamat Pagi Malaysia segment on RTM last Thursday (11 November).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He claimed that Malaysians are still at a low level of awareness when it comes to health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He went on to say that a substantial proportion of patients had comorbidities or chronic disorders, which was one of the causes for the high number of COVID-19 fatalities in the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, to encourage Malaysians to lead a healthy lifestyle, Agenda Nasional Malaysia Sihat (ANMS) has been established by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ANMS responsibilities are to promote health literacy, reduce treatment and rehabilitation costs, and lessen the risk of disease.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further said that in order to establish a healthy nation, Malaysians must modify their behaviour and raise their health awareness on their own, rather than relying entirely on the Health Ministry or the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Khairy, one out of every two Malaysians is obese, and one out of every four Malaysians does not keep fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153Besides that, only one out of every 20 Malaysians practise healthy eating according to the right nutritional guidelines. According to official statistics, half a million adults are depressed. I believe that this number is still lower than reality,\u009d he continued.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khairy further said that behavioural modification is key, and that self-awareness of one&#8217;s own health is among the ANMS&#8217; most significant components.***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>Source: The Star<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ayuni Nabila GOMBAK, 14 November 2021: Malaysia is considered as an unhealthy country since a huge percentage of its citizens suffer from health issues&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,4,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,156,2741],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158754"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158801,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158754\/revisions\/158801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}