There are more obese people on the planet than skinny people.
A new study showed that the number of obese people prevails over the number of people whose body weight is below normal. For this, scientists checked more than one and a half thousand studies in which more than 19 million people participated.
It is worth noting immediately that obesity leads to a huge number of various ailments, including an increase in the chance of cancer.
Scientists checked the body mass index of people from 200 countries from 1975 to 2014, using for this the results of 1698 studies with the number of participants more than 19.2 million people. Now people suffering from obesity, for the first time in history, more than thin. Over these 40 years, the number of obese men has tripled to 11%, while women doubled to 15% of the total.
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This is how the body mass index looked in various regions in 1975 and in 2014. The increase in the number of dark red zones is clearly noticeable.
These graphs show the growth of body mass index in men and women in various countries over a 40-year gap.
If the trend continues, then by 2025, 18 out of 100 men and 21 out of 100 women will be overweight.
At the same time, the number of men with a weight below normal decreased from 14% to 9%, and women from 15% to 10%. Scientists noted that approximately the same number of people with obesity and people with weight below the norm was in 2004, and then by 2011 there was a bias towards an increase in the number of people with obesity.
25% of all men and 20% of all overweight women live in the United States. But the highest body mass index among the population found in Polynesia, where 38% of men and half of women suffer from obesity. And if in America you can measure blood sugar levels, you have plenty of diabetes drugs available, you can adjust your diet to reduce the risk to life, then in developing countries obesity is a much more dangerous problem.
It is worth noting immediately that obesity leads to a huge number of various ailments, including an increase in the chance of cancer.
Scientists checked the body mass index of people from 200 countries from 1975 to 2014, using for this the results of 1698 studies with the number of participants more than 19.2 million people. Now people suffering from obesity, for the first time in history, more than thin. Over these 40 years, the number of obese men has tripled to 11%, while women doubled to 15% of the total.
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This is how the body mass index looked in various regions in 1975 and in 2014. The increase in the number of dark red zones is clearly noticeable.
These graphs show the growth of body mass index in men and women in various countries over a 40-year gap.
If the trend continues, then by 2025, 18 out of 100 men and 21 out of 100 women will be overweight.
At the same time, the number of men with a weight below normal decreased from 14% to 9%, and women from 15% to 10%. Scientists noted that approximately the same number of people with obesity and people with weight below the norm was in 2004, and then by 2011 there was a bias towards an increase in the number of people with obesity.
25% of all men and 20% of all overweight women live in the United States. But the highest body mass index among the population found in Polynesia, where 38% of men and half of women suffer from obesity. And if in America you can measure blood sugar levels, you have plenty of diabetes drugs available, you can adjust your diet to reduce the risk to life, then in developing countries obesity is a much more dangerous problem.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/392513/
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