Posted on March 23, 2010.
The epidemic of obesity Called Obesity has become a global pandemic affecting the lives and health of millions of people, according to the World Health Organization. It is a social problem of the acceleration in the industrialized countries and is being developed in the former colonial world.
Obesity is often defined as an eating disorder. However, this is not a simple condition of eating too much. Health experts believe that obesity is a serious and chronic disease prevalent in society today.
As the obesity epidemic "increases, so does the number of people who suffer. Approximately 300,000 adult deaths in the United States alone each year are directly attributable to poor diet and physical inactivity or sedentary behavior and obesity. In the United States alone, nearly one third of the adult population is obese. In Europe, they have a similar meeting of the disease. An astonishing 58 percent of the adult population of Great Britain is considered overweight or obese, a report published in England said. The National Audit Office of Great Britain last year that 20 percent of British women and 17 per cent of men were up to 70 pounds more than the recommended weight for their size.
Obesity is not only a health problem. It is also regarded as a socio-economic uses 117 billion dollars per year in the United States alone. In Britain, obesity cost £ 2,600,000,000 in NHS bills and indirect losses to the British economy. at least 18 million sick days per year can be attributed to obesity, he says, and increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer and stroke reduces life expectancy by about nine years.
When it comes to explaining these trends, not only media reports, many scientific articles contempt refer to a combination of fast food, greater ownership of parking and a sedentary lifestyle in front of the post television or computer screens.
First, such generalizations are often backed by little substantiated data. Some studies have shown that the prevalence of obesity among children is directly related to the duration of television saw, for example, but other studies have failed to establish a correlation.
More fundamentally, these comments ignore the economic and social forces behind changes in diet and lifestyle, including profits generated by the food and entertainment and the intense pressures caused by increasing working hours work and lower standards of living for most workers.
Obesity can also reduce the life expectancy of individuals. In addition, obese people are more sensitivity and risk for a number of diseases directly related to obesity. These include: sleep apnea type 2 diabetes in adults () diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, heart attack, heart failure, cancer such as cancer of the colon or rectum gallstones gout and gouty arthritis, osteoarthritis, and the syndrome of Pickwick.
