Term disease degeneratif lately become a hot discussion among the various and not again become the doctors consumption. Rapid development of the disease has been encouraging the public to understand the impact
Degeneratif disease is medical term to describe a disease process that appears due to the slowdown of the cell body to its normal condition worsen. The entry in this group, among other melitus diabetes, stroke, coronary heart, kardiovaskular, Obesity, dislipidemia and so forth.
Results from different research note that the emergence of modern diseases degeneratif have a strong enough correlation with the increase in the age penuaan someone. Although such factors are also the offspring of a role big enough.
In Indonesia, the disease at this time many degeneratif among urban communities. The cause is mainly due to lifestyle changes in urbanization and modernization, said Kasubdinas Social and Public Health Info Health Pemprov Jakarta, drg.Tini Suryani.
"Changes in lifestyle can be seen clearly with the emergence of other places to eat junk food in almost all corners of the city. Junk food is not healthy food because it has low nutritional value," he said.
This type of food containing saturated fat (saturated fat), salt and sugar, and various additive such as monosodium glutamate and tartrazine with a high degree. Junk food contains almost no protein, vitamins and fiber that the body is needed.
In big cities in Indonesia, junk food is sold in many shopping centers and central jajanan. Even the type of restaurant food that has a high cholesterol level is already reaching small cities in almost all corners of the country.
In Jakarta, for example, food such as this can be found in all corners of the city. Similarly in cities around Jakarta such as Bekasi, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi, people easily get spoiled with all the food outlets and even IM-food outlets selling fast food to offer services across the message.
Pattern eat all the food at this time IM is very tune by the urban community. For example, the type of food gorengan rousing cheap and easily available as many are sold in the street is it's really nice.
Jajanan such as fried bananas, know the contents, fried cassava, banana chocolate (piscok), bala-bala, and many others with a taste of delicious, intricate, and valuable cheap, people like food gorengan.
But many people do not know that gorengan food is food that has a high risk of disease degeneratif triggered diseases such as diabetes melitus, kardiovaskular, and stroke.
Dr. Rustika, researchers Balitbang Department of Health, in doktornya dissertation at the Faculty of Public Health, University of Indonesia said that the disease kardiovaskular at this time murderer who has become quite significant.
Kardiovaskular disease is a disease associated with aberration heart and blood vessel. In Indonesia, people with this disease is increasing and has become the first cause of death for people with age above 40 years. Meanwhile, in countries rich in this disease is a major killer.
Increased
In Indonesia, the death rate due to this disease continues to increase. Results Household Health Surveys (National Household Health Survey) in 2001 indicates that the disease has become kardiovaskular highest cause of death in 1992, 1995, and 2001, when in 1972 the new ranks to-11.
Kardiovaskular disease caused by a high degree total cholesterol, LDL, and trigliserida and a decrease in HDL level in blood. The increase is caused by the impact of modernization is part of the changing attitudes of the Indonesian people become pengonsumsi low-fiber foods and high fat.
Further results of research Dr. Rustika shows that 29.70 grams of acid per day of saturated fat consumed by people, only 20% of them or 5.93 grams per day that come from non-food gorengan.
While the other 80%, or 23.77 grams per day comes from the food gorengan, equivalent to a three-piece type of food gorengan side dish, and five pieces of food distraction side dish or two pieces, eight pieces, and food variety.
"The habit of eating excessive food gorengan dangerous for health, especially degeneratif disease," said Rustika.
Degeneratif the disease is not contagious since several decades back has become a fairly serious problem for many countries around the world.
World Health Organization (WHO) said that the disease has been degeneratif add peliknya health conditions in some countries of the world, who have problems dihimpit many cases diseases and infections that are non degeneratif.
This organization also said that many countries have billions of dollars in losses due to disease degeneratif. Therefore, the concrete steps needed to menanggulanginya.
Still according to the WHO, to the end of 2005 only degeneratif disease has caused the death of nearly 17 million people around the world. This amount is put into it degeneratif biggest human killer disease.
Largest number of deaths in countries with low national income to high.
In the report mentioned that there are nine states with the biggest victims. Countries are Brazil, China, India, UK, Canada, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia and Tanzania. Such as health problems in general, it is also very degeneratif affect many factors in human life. Sector is the most affected economic sector, because this disease is affecting the productivity of a person.
WHO's latest report said that the three-income countries that have people with the disease degeneratif largest China, India and Russia, up to 10 years can be estimated to lose hundreds of billions of dollars.
This new type of the disease only four, namely stroke, heart, cancer and diabetes.
WHO says more of one billion people worldwide currently suffering from obesity, a condition that can trigger diseases degeneratif. This amount is estimated to increase to 1.5 billion by 2015.
Various approaches proposed by various circles. Two of them are recommending a reduction in the use of salt in the different processed food produced by companies producing processed food and a higher tax on cigarette products.
Can be prevented
One of the many diseases that befall degeneratif is militus diabetes. This disease is a disease degeneratif non chronic infection that is due to the high glucose level in blood. The disease diabetes is very dangerous because it can cause the emergence of diseases other, more dangerous, such as heart, kidney and blindness.
Dr. Joko Triharto-a medical expert in the disease-in a chance to say that the early diagnosis of disease is the best way to avoid the disease diabetes melitus prolonged.
"30% of the disease is diabetes melitus factors descent. People aged 15 years and over about 1,2-2,3% and this number tended to increase in line with the level of economic growth," said Dr. Joko.
As well as other experts, he also said there are three ways of prevention of disease entry degeneratif this group. Third way is to eat a good pattern that is not eating fatty foods such as junk food and other food berkolesterol, doing sports regularly, and not smoking. For groups with a high risk that people with age above 45 years old, have parents who carry the disease diabetes, and have excessive body weight, on the third way must be added to the regular health checks.
Degeneratif disease can be prevented with the factors that minimize the risk of it. Risk factors, this fact was widely known by almost all the community. Risk factors, the main cause of the disease is degeneratif pattern that is not healthy to eat, lack of physical activity, and cigarette consumption.
Third risk factor is increased in line with changes in eating habits the community, to the consumption of foods high fat and sugar, and the type of work that is not spent a lot of energy (sedentary).
Increased marketing and sale of tobacco products on the popularity of countries with low to moderate income is very involved in the consumption of cigarettes as a risk factor causes disease degeneratif.
World health organization report, as many as one billion people worldwide suffering from obesity, and estimated this number will increase to more than 1.5 billion until the year 2015, if no immediate response efforts.
Many of the approaches that offer solutif against this, including through the use of salt reduction on processed food, the eating patterns of school, and the implementation of tobacco tax.
Ways was not only effective and efficient, but also profitable for the government.
