Abstract

Muhammad Imran Qadir* and Ramsha Shahzad

ABSTRACT

All animals and humans have some amount of fats and adipose tissue in their body at some required amount as it exceeds the person become obese. Obesity occurs due to consuming excess amount of food, lack of sleeping. Increase demand of new technologies, endocrine hormone disruption, smoking which suppresses appetite, use of medicine, faulty gene of obese. Many diseases occur due to obesity such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes type 2, Cancer, depression. In this study, a questioner was given to the 38 postgraduate students of Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology for the awareness about obesity. Views are obtained from M.phil students about its awareness. According to this study analysis, 76% students said obesity is a genetic disease, 87% student views that it is metabolic disorder and 61% said it easily curable. Objective of this study is to aware postgraduate students of Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan about obesity.