Video Humans die now more overweight than malnourished. Researchers study how obesity became, in forty years, another “global epidemic.”
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Between 1975 and 2016, the proportion of obese people has nearly tripled worldwide, and obesity now affects more than one in three adults. Often pointed at our food and ingested calories are not everything. Chronic disease with sometimes serious consequences on the quality and life expectancy, obesity is the result of multiple factors, social, environmental and biological factors.
By studying what has changed in our lifestyle and our nutrition the last forty years, here are some keys to discern the origins of what is now considered by the WHO as a “global epidemic.”
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Sources:
- Global data on the obesity and overweight (World health Organization)
- Global data on disease and mortality (Global Burden of Disease)
- World Data on food and agriculture (food and agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
- annual food consumption in Sweden (Public Health Nutrition, 2015)
- Results of the French cohort study NutriNet-Health
- average weekly expenditure China , United States, United Kingdom, Brazil and India (Obesity Reviews, 2013)
- energy Compensation in human metabolism (Current Biology, 2021)
- Diagram of the multiple factors contributing to obesity (obesity Map System, Foresight Report, 2011)