Did you know?
- Obesity is a global public health crisis
- Its prevalence has now overtaken the underfed
- Its prevalence has increased radically over the past three decades
- If rates continue in this fashion, by 2030, 86.3% of adults will be overweight or obese and 51.1% will be obese
- Obesity is a risk factor for the development of chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemias, stroke and cancer
- Obesity is a metabolic disease with multi-factorial causes, including genetics and environmental
- The detrimental effects of obesity are greater than both smoking and drinking in terms of overall health conditions and health-related costs
- In 2008, costs to treat obesity totalled $147 billion in the US
- Over the past decades, much research has focused on the causes of obesity and how it could be prevented or treated.
- It is not caused by a mere lack of willpower
- The Obesity epidemic is bigger than individual responsibility
- Modern eating habits and food culture must be changed if we are going to have a chance at reversing this problem on a global scale.
