April 4, 2016.
Despite numerous prevention campaigns in the field of nutrition, obesity remains a global scourge, which is worsening.
China, second country in the world for the number of “big”
According to a British study, obesity continues to gain ground. While some countries, through their prevention campaigns in particular, have slowed down the spread of this scourge (in the United States, for example, the number of obese children has dropped drastically since 2010, compared to the previous decade), there are has more and more overweight people in the world, especially in emerging countries. The proof ? China is now the second country in the world most affected by the problem of severe obesity in adults (when the body mass index exceeds 35), just behind … the United States! As a result, there will soon be, if this is not already the case, more fat and very fat people on the planet than hungry people …
15 million obese in France
The British study also reveals the worsening of the situation in some countries over the past forty years. Thus, in France, between 1975 and 2015, the number of seriously obese people (BMI above 35) rose from 600,000 men and women to … 3.4 million. Overweight people, over the same period, are now nearly 12 million, against “only” 3.5 million in 1975. But, here again, prevention campaigns are starting to produce their effects: among those under 18, the number of overweight people has fallen over the past five years, compared to the average figures for twenty years. It will therefore take at least a generation to see the proportion of obese decline in the general population, after a peak, in 2025 …
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