Obesity prevention must begin at home

I REFER to the report “Lack of nutrition the culprit” (The Star, May 30) about the findings of the National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) 2019. The survey found that one in two Malaysians are obese, one-fifth of the population have diabetes and one-third have raised blood pressure.

While the public health doctor in me would like to begin preaching statistics about how poorly Malaysians are doing and how we could do better as a country, as a mother of three young children, I know what a struggle it is to raise a healthy family.