More than a billion people obese worldwide
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article said:
More than a billion people are living with obesity around the world, global estimates published in The Lancet show.
This includes about 880 million adults and 159 million children, according to 2022 data.
The highest rates are in Tonga and American Samoa for women and American Samoa and Nauru for men, with some 70-80% of adults living with obesity.
Out of some 190 countries, the UK ranks 55th highest for men and 87th for women.
The international team of scientists say there is an urgent need for major changes in how obesity is tackled.
Obesity can increase the risk of developing many serious health conditions, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers.
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Senior researcher Prof Majid Ezzati, of Imperial College London, told the BBC: "In many of these island nations it comes down to the availability of healthy food versus unhealthy food.
"In some cases there have been aggressive marketing campaigns promoting unhealthy foods, while the cost and availability of healthier food can be more problematic."
Prof Ezzati, who has been looking at global data for years, says he is surprised at the speed the picture has changed, with many more countries now facing an obesity crisis, while the number of places where people being underweight is regarded as the biggest concern, has decreased.
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68436642This includes about 880 million adults and 159 million children, according to 2022 data.
The highest rates are in Tonga and American Samoa for women and American Samoa and Nauru for men, with some 70-80% of adults living with obesity.
Out of some 190 countries, the UK ranks 55th highest for men and 87th for women.
The international team of scientists say there is an urgent need for major changes in how obesity is tackled.
Obesity can increase the risk of developing many serious health conditions, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers.
...
Senior researcher Prof Majid Ezzati, of Imperial College London, told the BBC: "In many of these island nations it comes down to the availability of healthy food versus unhealthy food.
"In some cases there have been aggressive marketing campaigns promoting unhealthy foods, while the cost and availability of healthier food can be more problematic."
Prof Ezzati, who has been looking at global data for years, says he is surprised at the speed the picture has changed, with many more countries now facing an obesity crisis, while the number of places where people being underweight is regarded as the biggest concern, has decreased.
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"Rather than letting turkey tails go to waste, the poultry industry saw a business opportunity. The target: Pacific Island communities, where animal protein was scarce. In the 1950s U.S. poultry firms began dumping turkey tails, along with chicken backs, into markets in Samoa. (Not to be outdone, New Zealand and Australia exported “mutton flaps,” also known as sheep bellies, to the Pacific Islands.) With this strategy, the turkey industry turned waste into gold."
"By 2007 the average Samoan was consuming more than 44 pounds of turkey tails every year—a food that had been unknown there less than a century earlier. That’s nearly triple Americans’ annual per capita turkey consumption."
Long known fact in the food industry. In 2007 Samoa banned the import of TT but had to rescind this in 2013 on joining the WTO.
Huge social reasons around consumption this but explains the figures shown in the BBC article.
"Rather than letting turkey tails go to waste, the poultry industry saw a business opportunity. The target: Pacific Island communities, where animal protein was scarce. In the 1950s U.S. poultry firms began dumping turkey tails, along with chicken backs, into markets in Samoa. (Not to be outdone, New Zealand and Australia exported “mutton flaps,” also known as sheep bellies, to the Pacific Islands.) With this strategy, the turkey industry turned waste into gold."
"By 2007 the average Samoan was consuming more than 44 pounds of turkey tails every year—a food that had been unknown there less than a century earlier. That’s nearly triple Americans’ annual per capita turkey consumption."
Long known fact in the food industry. In 2007 Samoa banned the import of TT but had to rescind this in 2013 on joining the WTO.
Huge social reasons around consumption this but explains the figures shown in the BBC article.
Edited by 21TonyK on Friday 1st March 07:44
mikebradford said:
Just walking round town centres backs up the article.
Far to many lazy people.
Probably true but I think the availability of treat foods and eating them on a daily basis doesn't help. Far to many lazy people.
Eating cakes, biscuits, fried food and snacks whilst guzzling drinks high in calories is the norm for many. Not sure how they expect to use up so many calories.
Pistom said:
mikebradford said:
Just walking round town centres backs up the article.
Far to many lazy people.
Probably true but I think the availability of treat foods and eating them on a daily basis doesn't help. Far to many lazy people.
Eating cakes, biscuits, fried food and snacks whilst guzzling drinks high in calories is the norm for many. Not sure how they expect to use up so many calories.
g3org3y said:
article said:
More than a billion people are living with obesity around the world.
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68436642
A case where it actually is partly their genes making them fat. When the Polynesians colonized the Pacific, relatively recently in genetic terms there was an advantage to starting long risky sea voyages with a lot of stored fat.
https://gizmodo.com/how-a-powerful-obesity-gene-he...
https://gizmodo.com/how-a-powerful-obesity-gene-he...
irc said:
A case where it actually is partly their genes making them fat. When the Polynesians colonized the Pacific, relatively recently in genetic terms there was an advantage to starting long risky sea voyages with a lot of stored fat.
https://gizmodo.com/how-a-powerful-obesity-gene-he...
It may be in the video linked above but didn't the arrival of the US Airbases and the influx of Spam and fizzy drinks have a catastrophic effect due to this gene? I'm sure I saw a doc on it with the amount of amputations due to type 2 diabetes being the highest in the world.https://gizmodo.com/how-a-powerful-obesity-gene-he...
irc said:
A case where it actually is partly their genes making them fat. When the Polynesians colonized the Pacific, relatively recently in genetic terms there was an advantage to starting long risky sea voyages with a lot of stored fat.
https://gizmodo.com/how-a-powerful-obesity-gene-he...
Recent evidence also points to a mother having a poor diet when pregnant, causing the child to overeat once born due to it thinking it is not getting enough nourishment from the food it is eating, despite it being sufficient.https://gizmodo.com/how-a-powerful-obesity-gene-he...
I think also the father's diet plays a role at the point of conception.
Either way, we're all f*cked
mikebradford said:
Just walking round town centres backs up the article.
Far to many lazy people.
What do you mean by lazy? Exercise wont outrun a bad diet and it's the things you eat that make you fat rather than turning yourself into a gym bunny. Far to many lazy people.
The ones responsible are the food companies and the government for allowing food companies to advertise the carb laden crao that appeal to consumers.
sugerbear said:
mikebradford said:
Just walking round town centres backs up the article.
Far to many lazy people.
What do you mean by lazy? Exercise wont outrun a bad diet and it's the things you eat that make you fat rather than turning yourself into a gym bunny. Far to many lazy people.
The ones responsible are the food companies and the government for allowing food companies to advertise the carb laden crao that appeal to consumers.
sugerbear said:
mikebradford said:
Just walking round town centres backs up the article.
Far to many lazy people.
The ones responsible are the food companies and the government for allowing food companies to advertise the carb laden crao that appeal to consumers. Far to many lazy people.
...and we're eating/drinking it because it tastes nice, not because of the packaging.
What's funny is when you bring this up in relation to transport, all hell breaks loose, from cycle lanes to 15-minute cities; how dare you impact people's freedoms (to drive)?
We all need to move a bit more for physical and mental health reasons, yet suggesting that this could be part of the daily lives of millions will get you burned at the stake as a witch.
We all need to move a bit more for physical and mental health reasons, yet suggesting that this could be part of the daily lives of millions will get you burned at the stake as a witch.
I’m obese. Big fat fella. There it’s out there.
No excuses. Mine is beer related. I love beer and pubs and peanuts. Now 150kgs. Way too much at 184cm.
But in the past even when I cut out all alcohol and eat clean plus ran 80 to 100 kms a week training for a marathon. 2000 calories a day plus weights 3 times a week I could not get below 100kgs.
Just an absolute block. Boxing, rugby, running nothing got me below 100kgs.
But I’m still fairly muscular nothing like the big blobs of flab I see around.
No excuses. Mine is beer related. I love beer and pubs and peanuts. Now 150kgs. Way too much at 184cm.
But in the past even when I cut out all alcohol and eat clean plus ran 80 to 100 kms a week training for a marathon. 2000 calories a day plus weights 3 times a week I could not get below 100kgs.
Just an absolute block. Boxing, rugby, running nothing got me below 100kgs.
But I’m still fairly muscular nothing like the big blobs of flab I see around.
Type R Tom said:
What's funny is when you bring this up in relation to transport, all hell breaks loose, from cycle lanes to 15-minute cities; how dare you impact people's freedoms (to drive)?
We all need to move a bit more for physical and mental health reasons, yet suggesting that this could be part of the daily lives of millions will get you burned at the stake as a witch.
Because the most valuable resource any of us have is time, and the car facilities the most efficient use of that time.We all need to move a bit more for physical and mental health reasons, yet suggesting that this could be part of the daily lives of millions will get you burned at the stake as a witch.
Inconveniencing some because others have an over active pie arm is not the answer: neither is lambasting food corps - look at the damage done to our fizzy beverage market as an example of when you push an agenda because of a subsection of society: fizzy drinks used to be full of sugar. Therefore useful to stave off glycogen depletion, and helpful when sick.
They're no longer good for either of these things, in fact, so far as I can tell, they now serve no useful purpose at all.
Let's not do this to our road network as well.
Matthen said:
Type R Tom said:
What's funny is when you bring this up in relation to transport, all hell breaks loose, from cycle lanes to 15-minute cities; how dare you impact people's freedoms (to drive)?
We all need to move a bit more for physical and mental health reasons, yet suggesting that this could be part of the daily lives of millions will get you burned at the stake as a witch.
Because the most valuable resource any of us have is time, and the car facilities the most efficient use of that time.We all need to move a bit more for physical and mental health reasons, yet suggesting that this could be part of the daily lives of millions will get you burned at the stake as a witch.
"The cost of diabetes to the NHS is over £1.5m an hour or 10% of the NHS budget for England and Wales. This equates to over £25,000 being spent on diabetes every minute"
There are many ways we can reduce that, and getting people moving is one of them!
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