The Student Affairs Department at Sahara Mall, in cooperation with the Student Club for Health Education in Colleges, coinciding with World Obesity Day, which falls on 10/11/2017, organized an educational awareness event about obesity and its dangers.
The event included introductory sections about the harms of obesity, its causes and complications, and the importance of healthy food and physical activity. It also included a section for measuring weight and knowing the ideal weight. The students also distributed introductory brochures about obesity, its harms, and how to prevent it.
The event aims to raise awareness among all members of society about the seriousness of this disease and its association with many chronic diseases and pathological disorders, and to combine all efforts from the health and educational sectors to reduce the high rate of this phenomenon through awareness, education, and conducting extensive studies to determine the most important causes of obesity in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
