Health
3 Practical Approaches to Tackle Obesity
The obesity epidemic causes suffering and kills millions of people, but it is preventable and treatable by taking personal responsibility and seeking timely professional support.
Obesity is preventable and treatable.
According to World Health Organization (WHO), worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975. Almost 2 billion people are overweight. Unfortunately, over 340 million children and adolescents were overweight or obese in 2016.
WHO coined the term “globesity” for the obesity epidemic.
“At the other end of the malnutrition scale, obesity is one of today’s most blatantly visible — yet most neglected — public health problems. Paradoxically coexisting with undernutrition, an escalating global epidemic of overweight and obesity is taking over many parts of the world. If immediate action is not taken, millions will suffer from an array of serious health disorders.”
As documented in the body of knowledge, such as in this paper, “increase in the prevalence of obesity has become a worldwide major health problem in adults, as well as among children and adolescents.”
