2 Billion Worldwide Are Obese or Overweight 2017

2 Billion Worldwide Are Obese or Overweight

 

2billion worldwide are obese or overweight

2 Billion Worldwide Are Obese or Overweight

Meanwhile, an increasing number of people are dying from weight-related health problems, even though they are not technically considered obese.

"Overweight is one of the toughest problems of our public health time, affecting nearly one in three people," said Ashkan Afshin, author of the study. He is an Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Institute of Measurement and Health Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Of the 4 million deaths attributed to weight in 2015, 40 percent were people whose body mass index (BMI - an estimate of body fat based on height and weight) was below the threshold considered obese.

The study, based on data from 195 countries, indicates that there is "worrying growth and global public health crisis" due to overweight and obesity, the authors of the study.

"People who receive less weight gain is at your own risk: risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and other life-threatening diseases," said Christopher Murray, director of the institute, co-author Of the study.

"New Year's resolutions to lose weight must be commitments throughout the year to lose weight and prevent future weight gain," Murray said in a news release from the institute.

2.2 billion overweight and obese people in 2015 included nearly 108 million children and over 600 million obese adults. Obesity rates have doubled in more than 70 countries since 1980, and has increased steadily in most other countries, the study authors.

The obesity rate in children is lower than in adults, but the rate of increase in childhood obesity in many countries is higher than that of adults, the researchers said.

Among the 20 most populous countries, the highest level of obesity among children and young adults in the United States was at nearly 13 percent. Egypt had the highest adult obesity rate, about 35 percent. The lowest rates of obesity among adults were in Bangladesh and Vietnam, at 1 percent.

China (15.3 million) and India (14.4 million) had the highest number of obese children. The United States (79.4 million) and China (57.3 million) had the highest number of obese adults in 2015

Who do you think obese? 

"It seems that obesity is in the eye of the beholder," said Vida Maralani, co-author of the study, Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University.

"People are judged differently according to who they are" too fat "in the medical world is objective, can be measured, but in the social world is not subjective," Maralani said in a news release from the university.

The perception of obesity varies greatly according to race, the researchers found.

"We found patterns fairly uniform for white Americans," said Maralani. "For the whites, there was a pains to be too thin and too greasy. For the white women, little was almost always better. "

Among African Americans, "the link between body mass and dissipates these results," he said. "People seem to have become more receptive to big bodies, but that's not true for whites," Maralani said.

The researchers found that the company's high expectations so that white women are thin. The higher the BMI of a white woman, the higher your salary. BMI is an estimate of body fat based on height and weight. Those with the lowest BMI wages the highest, researchers said.

"I think we focus on the medical definition of obesity has led us to lose sight of the fact that in the social world we have very subjective and fluid what it means to be fat or thin for different groups Definition,