US EditionNumber of obese people worldwide surpasses one billion
- More than one billion people worldwide are suffering from obesity, a number that has quadrupled since 1990, according to a study by the Lancet.
- The epidemic is especially impacting poorer countries, with increasing rates among children and adolescents, as noted by the World Health Organization.
- Researchers analyzed the height and weight of over 220 million people across more than 190 countries to obtain these estimates, according to Lancet.
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L’obesità rappresenta una minaccia per la salute globale più grave della fame. Il 4 marzo 2024 ricorre il World Obesity Day, la giornata mondiale per la prevenzione dell’obesità e del sovrappeso, che con oltre un miliardo di persone clinicamente obese (più di una su otto nel mondo) rappresenta oggi la principale forma di malnutrizione. Secondo l’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità l’obesità rappresenta uno dei principali problemi di salute pubb…
Nel mondo oltre un miliardo di obesi, è un'epidemia
Oggi la giornata mondiale: oltre un miliardo di persone nel mondo soffrono di obesità e i numeri sono quelli di un'epidemia. L'Italia è al quarto posto in Europa per obesità nei bambini. Bambini e adolescenti colpiti da obesità sono passati dai 31 milioni del 1990 a quasi di 160 milioni nel 2022. (ANSA)
Obesity has become the most common form of malnutrition in the majority countries
There’s an epidemic that’s crossing the globe from end to end… and it’s more devastating than Covid. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 774 million people in the world were afflicted by the coronavirus. However, obesity already affects more than one billion people. A study published this past Thursday in The Lancet reveals that excess weight, a risk factor for dozens of diseases, is already the most common form of malnutriti…
Paris. Obesity affects more than 1.000 billion people in the world, estimated a study carried out in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), and published this Friday in the scientific journal The Lancet. The report, published on the occasion of World Obesity Day on March 4, reveals that between 1990 and 2022 the incidence of this disease quadrupled among children and adolescents and doubled among adults. This "epidemic" progress…
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