Updates on Obesity.
Across the world, obesity and its associated diseases have reached crisis proportions. The gulf region accounts for approximately 10% of diabetes sufferers worldwide.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) more than 1.9bn adults, 18 years and older, were overweight in 2014. Of these over 600m – one-in-eight adults globally - were obese.
The United Nations' goal, set in 2010, to halt the increase in obesity by 2025, will not be met if the current trajectory continues.
Aside from health issues, the disease has a significant economic impact as it hinders productivity, burdens health care systems and diminishes the quality and length of life. Urgent action is needed to stop the spread of the disease and reduce the current scale of the problem. The complexity and magnitude of the problem require a comprehensive and holistic intervention strategy rolled out at scale.
Presently the issues of overweight and obesity are being tackled mostly at the outcome levels. Using medical and pharmaceutical solutions through drugs and other medications. Yet the more critical issues to prevent the spread and help made the UN goal set in 2010 a realistic strategy is to attack the sources of the overweight-obesity phenomenon.
Over the last three decades, advocates of healthy active living styles have taken place in the fast lanes and have already created a significant impact in the wellness industry, believed to be a trillion-dollar industry of the 21st Century.
http://www.globalwellnessinstitute.com/
http://www.euromonitor.com/health-and-wellness-global-briefings/global-briefing-subscription
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