A new
report has found that the number of obese people has increased by more than six
times over the past 40 years. Medical experts warn of a looming crisis.
Deutsche Welle, 1 April 2016
The new
study, published by "The Lancet" medical journal in Britain, looked
at individuals in close to 200 countries, and found that over one in eight
adults are now obese - more than double the ratio in 1975.
"Over
the past 40 years, we have changed from a world in which underweight prevalence
was more than double that of obesity, to one in which more people are obese
than underweight," said Prof. Majid Ezzati.
Of the
roughly 5 billion adults recorded in 2014, 641 million were obese - more than
six times the recorded number in 1975.
Worsening
epidemic
By 2025,
the report predicted, 18 percent of men and 21 per cent of women will be obese.
"There will be health consequences of magnitudes that we do not
know," Ezzati told AFP news agency.
The report
based its findings on the body mass index (BMI), which gauges an individual's
obesity level using a ratio of the person's height relative to his or her
weight. A healthy BMI lies between 18.5 and 24.9. A person over 30 is
considered obese, while a person over 40 is deemed severely obese.
Nearly a
fifth of the world's obese people live in six high-income countries: the US,
Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. On the other side of the
spectrum, East Timor, Ethiopia and Eritrea had the lowest recorded BMI numbers
in the world.
blc/kms (AFP, dpa)
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(13) Question: Dear Kryon, I’m very concerned about the obesity epidemic, particularly in the U.S. Around me I see people getting bigger and more unhealthy, all for the sake of convenience and saving time. You mentioned at one point a famine, and I suspect the famine won’t be from a lack of food, but from an abundance of food that has no nutritional value.
I wonder how we can honor the Earth by eating nothing that comes straight from it? Of course this involves caring for the lands and oceans as part of a bigger issue and making that connection, too. Is this what it will finally take for people to switch to a healthier way of living?
Its amazing how detached people are from the food they eat. We don’t even honor our digestive processes, the way we combine foods. Whatever happened to nutrition? Atkins is no solution; there is no balance in it. Gastric bypass is all about quantity reduction, not quality increase. When will people make the direct connection between what/how they eat and their health? Is a change in diet and lifestyle part of the upcoming shift?
Answer: The shift has little to do with it. It’s a culture-specific problem and has to do with consciousness of health. Go study the cultures on your planet that have very few overweight Humans. Start with the Japanese. They have some of the same western work ethics and live in very sophisticated industrial-based environments. Yet they aren’t overweight. It’s about the core food groups and the combination of them.
Its amazing how detached people are from the food they eat. We don’t even honor our digestive processes, the way we combine foods. Whatever happened to nutrition? Atkins is no solution; there is no balance in it. Gastric bypass is all about quantity reduction, not quality increase. When will people make the direct connection between what/how they eat and their health? Is a change in diet and lifestyle part of the upcoming shift?
Answer: The shift has little to do with it. It’s a culture-specific problem and has to do with consciousness of health. Go study the cultures on your planet that have very few overweight Humans. Start with the Japanese. They have some of the same western work ethics and live in very sophisticated industrial-based environments. Yet they aren’t overweight. It’s about the core food groups and the combination of them.
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