{"id":18376,"date":"2018-10-24T12:53:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T12:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/?p=18376"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:53:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T12:53:25","slug":"growing-obesity-rates-alarming-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/growing-obesity-rates-alarming-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Obesity Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-1  fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-style: solid;border-top-style: solid;padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;padding-left:;padding-right:;\"><style type=\"text\/css\" scoped=\"scoped\">.fusion-fullwidth-1 {\r\n                            padding-left: px !important;\r\n                            padding-right: px !important;\r\n                        }<\/style><div class=\"fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-center fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-\" style=\"border-color:#a36160;\"><\/div><\/div><h1 class=\"title-heading-center\"><span style=\"color: #a36160;\">Growing Obesity Rates Are Becoming A Worldwide Epidemic<\/span><\/h1><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-\" style=\"border-color:#a36160;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:;\"><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>World Health Organisation<\/strong><\/a>, since 1975 worldwide <strong>obesity has tripled<\/strong>. For both the developed and developing countries, this has presented a <strong>huge public health scourge<\/strong>. Today,<strong> 2.1 billon people are overweight,<\/strong> which counts for 30% of the world\u2019s population. Obesity is becoming a<strong> global concern and is growing at alarming rates internationally<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2010, <strong>3.4 million deaths were caused by cardiovascular disease<\/strong>, cancer, diabetes, osteoarthritis, and chronic kidney diseases. All of which were associated with obesity and overweight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Christopher Murray, director of IHME and co-founder of the Global Burden Off Disease study says, \u201cIn the last three decades, <strong>not one country has achieved success in reducing obesity rates<\/strong>, and we expect <strong>obesity to rise steadily<\/strong> as incomes rise in low- and middle-income nations in particular, unless urgent steps are taken to address this public health crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2016, <strong>41 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese<\/strong>. In the same year, 340 million children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 19 were overweight or obese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The double burden of obesity and undernourishment is a result of a <strong>lifestyle switch and poverty<\/strong>. 62% of obese are living in developing countries. This universal epidemic is due to the explosion of the <strong>availability of unhealthy foods<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many low-income countries such as, Brazil, Libya, Samoa and India etc. tend to spend their money on <strong>cheaper food options<\/strong>.\u00a0 This has resulted in a shift away from traditional cuisine and more towards Western diets exposing them to a diet <strong>high in fat<\/strong>,<strong> sugar and salt<\/strong>,<strong> energy-dense<\/strong>, and <strong>poor in micronutrients<\/strong>. Although they will be cut down in cost and higher in calories they will also be <strong>less nutritious<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A diabetes specialist, Professor Ranjan Yajnik, is seeing first-hand how this change is having an impact on one\u2019s health: \u00ab\u00a0Diabetes was considered a disease of the older and more obese,\u00a0\u00bb he says. \u00ab\u00a0But in India we&rsquo;re seeing it in <strong>younger people and with a lower BMI<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rise also comes from the <strong>shift towards office jobs<\/strong> and<strong> television<\/strong> amongst many other <strong>low physical activities<\/strong>. Research indicates the <strong>rise in obesity could lead to a decline in future life expectancy<\/strong>, if left unchecked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diseases related to overweight and obesity are largely preventable. The key to preventing this issue is to have <strong>supportive environments and communities<\/strong> who can help<strong> influence societies choices<\/strong>. By making <strong>physical activities a priority<\/strong> and making better and<strong> healthier food choices<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Governments are making<strong> conscious efforts<\/strong> to reduce rates by implementing a \u201c<strong>sugar tax<\/strong>\u201d on artificially sweetened drinks. In Mexico, obesity rates are<strong> predicted to drop by 12.5% in the next 12 years because of this tax addition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To halt this nutritional dilemma, much more work will be needed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:;\"><\/div><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10pt; color: #a36160;\">References<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">BBC News. (<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-45878325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-45878325<\/a>). The Place Where Too Many Are Fat And Too Many Are Thin. 23 October 2018. Dr Sophie Hawkesworth &amp; Dr Lindsay Keir.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">World Health Organisation. (<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/obesity-and-overweight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/obesity-and-overweight<\/a>). Obesity And Overweight<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">IHME. (<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.healthdata.org\/news-release\/nearly-one-third-world%E2%80%99s-population-obese-or-overweight-new-data-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.healthdata.org\/news-release\/nearly-one-third-world%E2%80%99s-population-obese-or-overweight-new-data-show<\/a>). Nearly one-third of the world\u2019s population is obese or overweight, new data show. Christopher J.L. 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