04/07/16.
When the WHO (World Health Organization) sounds the alarm, there really is a problem. In this case, the problem is the exponential growth in the number of diabetics in the world.
8.5% of the world’s population suffers from diabetes
With one in three adults worldwide being overweight, and one in ten obese, the risks of seeing diabetes increase proportionately were obvious. This is indeed what the WHO notes: 8.5% of the world population suffers from diabetes, mainly type II, that caused by bad eating habits. In 1980, there were 100 million diabetics in the world, in 2014, they were more than 400 million.
As a result, the WHO is sounding the alarm. Because diabetes kills, and also causes serious induced diseases, which suffer patients for months and years, and are expensive for health systems.
Change of lifestyle and diet
” We need to rethink our daily life in order to eat healthy foods, be active and avoid excessive weight gain “, Declared the Director-General of WHO, Dr Margaret Chan, on the occasion of World Health Day which is set on April 7 each year. The WHO points out in passing that diabetes is hitting the poor more and more in developing countries. Recent access to cheap food with poor nutritional qualities, lack of education, mean that more than half of the world’s diabetics are now found in Asia and the Pacific region.
Note that in France, if the rate of diabetics treated, compared to the population, is “only” 4.7%, it continues to increase by a little more than 2% on average each year. The increase in the number of diagnosed diabetes exceeded 5% between 2005 and 2009, so there is real progress, but there is still work to be done …
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