About 60 percent of all adults and one third of all the children in the world will suffer more weight or obesity by 2050 until governments take action, a big new study said on Tuesday.
Research published in the Lancet Medical Journal used data from 204 countries, which was one of the great health challenges of the century to paint a serious picture described as one of the century.
Emmanuela Gakidou, the lead author of the US-based Institute for Health Metrix and Evolution (IHME), said in a statement, “The unprecedented global epidemic of overweight and obesity is an intensive tragedy and a monumental social failure.”
The study found that the number of overweight or obese people worldwide increased from 929 million in 1990 to 2.6 billion in 2021.
Without a serious change, researchers estimate that 3.8 billion adults would be overweight or thicker in 15 years – or about 60 percent of the global adult population in 2050.
The world’s health systems would come under crippling pressure, the researchers warned, about a quarter of the world was expected to be over 65 years of age by that time.
He predicted a 121 percent increase in obesity between children and teenagers around the world.
One third of all thick youth will be living in two regions – North Africa and Middle East, and Latin America and Caribbean – by 2050, researchers warned.
But Jessica Kerr, co-writer at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia, has not taken a long time to study.
“The diet within permanent global food systems requires very strong political commitment,” he said, “she said.
Kerr said that commitment was also necessary for strategies, which improves people’s nutrition, physical activity and living environment, whether it is too much processed food or not enough parks, ”said Kerr.
The study states that the world’s more than half overweight or thick adults already live in only eight countries – China, the United States, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia and Egypt.
While bad diet and sedentary lifestyle are clearly “doubtful” about the underlying causes of obesity, “Doubt”, a researcher at the University of Copenhagen, Thorkild Soranceon, said that the study said that the study is not involved.
For example, there is a “consistent and unexplained tendency” towards obesity in socially deprived groups, he said in a linked comment in the lensate.
The research is based on the global burden data of the disease study from IHME, which brings thousands of researchers together worldwide and funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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