Obesity Become A Global Epidemic

LONG considered a by-product of modern life in rich developed countries, obesity is spreading from the developing countries, such as a message from the British Medical Journal “Lancet”. He pointed out that food experts now warn that the “global epidemic” of obesity related diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

By tripling the number of overweight people and the doubling of the number of overweight women in China in the last eight years, hypertension rates are similar to those in the U.S.. More than half of all newly diagnosed cases of diabetes in India and China. Level of diabetes in Egypt, is equal to the U.S., while the other half of the women in Croatia are now overweight. Mexico has been a sharp increase of obesity at all levels of society in any part of the country and the increase in diabetes. Even the poor in sub-Saharan African countries, obesity and diabetes increase.

Although the children eat of fatty substances in fast food obesity accounts in some countries the main reason is that many producers are now more sugar foods as they taste better. “In addition, Asian and African children jestivog more oil, with additional calories. Advanced technology works, and in agriculture is less physical work that is needed for the production of goods. People want to work less and have more leisure time. Well, that the computer and TV is so popular that the workers receive less, and “E-mail indicates that the end of the message book and come to view with colleagues.”

Of obesity is increasing rapidly among too many students, especially areas in which sport and physical activity is reduced, there is an urgent need for teachers to be aware that the relationship between nutrition and academic achievement. Gail Harrison, in the School of Public Health, University of California, warns that the local strategies of prevention, is a joint program to prevent worldwide in conjunction with the development of strategies, processes and infrastructure, it is necessary, ” to combat the epidemic of obesity and diseases.