The primary health care centers of the Zaporizhzhya Oblast and their subdivisions are equipped with rostomers, weights, centimeter strips with a total cost of 4.6 million. UAH. The equipment was obtained through the implementation of the project "Improvement of medical care for patients with circulatory system diseases in the Zaporozhye region" in the framework of a joint project of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine with the World Bank "Improving health in the service of people".

According to experts, this will help primary care physicians to provide better and more timely medical care. As doctors explained, obesity is a disease in which excess fat accumulates in the subcutaneous adipose tissue and around the internal organs, which leads to a significant increase in weight. Studies of recent decades have revealed a direct relationship between obesity and the risk of serious diseases such as stroke, myocardial infarction, diabetes, oncology. Therefore, an increase in body weight should be considered not as a defect in appearance, but as a serious pathology and treatment for obesity should be done with the help of comprehensive and timely therapy.

Rational nutrition contributes to the preservation of health and has a preventive effect on the development of diseases, so it is also called "healthy food". Maintaining a constant normal body weight reduces the risk of the most dangerous diseases - cardiovascular, diabetes and cancer. Determine the optimal weight can be using the indicator - the body mass index (BMI).

BMI is a value that indicates the level of compliance of a person's weight and growth, thereby allowing approximately to determine whether the weight is insufficient, normal or excessive.

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