October 24, 2011

As analysts estimated, the number of people suffering from overweight By 2015 it could exceed $ 2 billion. This undoubtedly will impact the health care system, which each year have to spend about $ 30 million. On diseases caused by obesity . Such data told the World Health Organization.

Experts have compared statistics and were shocked. Compared with 1980 the number of people with overweight has increased in 2 times. The main reason for this turn of events, experts see a stationary lifestyle, consumption of foods high in sugar, salt, trans fat   and other substances that affect the weight.

Margaret Chan, the head of the WHO, said that despite the fact that in the world of people is growing rapidly, it does not mean that feeding people should be second-rate food, should in the first place to focus on quality rather than on mass production of cheap second-rate food . The head of the WHO called on all countries in the world to make food better, which will necessarily lead to a reduction in the number of chronic diseases, which arise on the background of obesity.

It's no secret that one of the main causes of this epidemic of obesity served as fast food chains, are not always in good faith, with the result that a person starts to have their products, even if you do not feel hunger. Many European countries have even introduced a tax on fatty foods Produced such fast fudami.

WHO experts also point out that this problem may be a new problem - the children of school age who are already in your years have excess weight.