Obesity has become a global problem

Earth every 4 people who have an obesity. In particular, the global body weight over 312 million people, 1.7 billion people should lose weight.

"International Working Group on Obesity," published data showed that obesity in the world population has more than hungry people, obesity has become a problem in developed and developing countries as a social problem.

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In the South Pacific island nation of Tonga, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia on the island of Kosrae, cheap instant noodles and fried chicken have to replace the traditional fish and taro has become the common people of choice for the table. In Mexico, 105 million of 40% of the population living in poverty, but the 2 / 3 of the population belong to the obese population.

As a high-calorie "junk food" the birthplace of the United States is still the country to highlight the problem of obesity, 2 / 3 of Americans over weight. The development of science and technology to speed up the production, processing and marketing aspects of the operation, so that high-calorie food production plant to spread rapidly worldwide. Cheap delicious high-calorie food more readily available, the increase in the global obesity epidemic.

"International Working Group on Obesity" policy director Neville Rigby said: "In particular, developing countries have to bear the burden of obesity trends. We are even seeing young people in India are obese. This is a universal problem. It has become completely The global epidemic. Is in fact infectious diseases. "

Reduce the amount of exercise also contributed to the increasing problem of obesity one of the important factors. People spend more time inside the car, in front of the TV and computer.

"The telephone, automobile, computer-dependent people from out of fear of hunger after the freedom," Imperial College London, Professor Stephen Bloom said, "but this had a negative impact."

The human appetite for the 21st century "new enemy"

"I think people's attention has been eating and breathing in the range between," Bloom said. However, without the restraint of appetite caused by the consequences of more of a concern.

According to statistics, the world's nearly 1 / 3 of deaths and cases of obesity, lack of exercise and smoking-related. Individual cases, the number of obese people who are born premature death Bi Changren 5 to 8 years.

Each year, the world's 300 million people die of obesity-related type 2 diabetes. Such cases usually lead to heart disease and kidney failure, the current number of patients has reached 154 million, more than the number of HIV infections. According to the World Health Organization predicts the next 25 years, the figure could double.

Obesity may increase the risk of heart disease. WHO data show that the global total of 17,000,000 people die of heart disease and other diseases of the circulatory system, the total number of deaths 1 / 3. In most countries, died of a heart attack in the case reached the working age group of adults to be even more common.

The Earth Institute at Columbia University study found that Brazil, China, India, South Africa, 30 to 59-year-old crowd of heart disease death rate is twice as the United States, Russia is higher than 5 times.

"The United States" is a curse?

New Zealand's Otago University nutrition professor and an expert on global obesity Jimu Man said: "If there should be criticized in the United States, and that is to the world's output of food industry of the United States have too much capacity around the U.S. government decision-making. The United States has become a Kinds of very complex factors, the role of a disease. "

Some experts believe that although the United States to Coca-Cola, McDonald's and other "junk food" and beverages as well as their way of thinking to sell to the world, but it should not therefore to blame all the world's obesity trend "of the United States." Neville Rigby said: "We see the United States is not just a social phenomenon, but a group of cross-border phenomenon." Jimu Man also believes that the ability to resist the United States and the concept of eating food, after all, a matter of personal choice .

In the face of the spread of obesity trends, some countries have taken measures to resist. For example, Singapore has strengthened the school sports activities to bottled water instead of soft drinks. Brazilian government ordered an increase in school lunches in the proportion of fruits and vegetables. International Diabetes Institute Paul Zimmet said, to help people buy health food and exercise to strengthen, most of the limited government action. Professor Stephen Bloom said: "If we can control the current obesity trends, it would be the cause of public health is an important achievement."