Interessant article de The Guardian “More than half of humans on track to be overweight or obese by 2035 – report”. On percoit aisement l’apparition et le developpement d’une nouvelle menace planetaire.
Campaigners urge ambitious global intervention with 25% of people expected to be clinically obese in 12 years
Denis Campbell Health policy editor
Thu 2 Mar 2023 12.00 GMT
Last modified on Thu 2 Mar 2023 15.08 GMT
More than half of the world’s population will be overweight or obese by 2035 unless governments take decisive action to curb the growing epidemic of excess weight, a report has warned.
About 2.6 billion people globally – 38% of the world population – are already overweight or obese. But on current trends that is expected to rise to more than 4 billion people (51%) in 12 years’ time, according to research by the World Obesity Federation.
Without widespread use of tactics such as taxes and limits on the promotion of unhealthy food, the number of people who are clinically obese will increase from one in seven today to one in four by 2035. If that happens, almost 2 billion people worldwide would be living with obesity.
Those with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 are judged to be overweight, while people whose BMI is at least 30 are deemed to be obese. Evidence shows that obesity increases someone’s risk of cancer, heart disease and other diseases.
Obesity among children and young people is on course to increase faster than among adults. By 2035 it is expected to be at least double the rate seen in 2020, according to the federation’s latest annual World Obesity Atlas report.
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