Reports warn that more than half of adults and a third of children and youth around the world will suffer from weight gain or obesity by 2050, which poses an “unparalleled threat” of early death, disease and tremendous pressure on health care systems.
Global failures in responding to the increasing obesity crisis during the past three decades led to an amazing increase in the affected numbers, according to the analysis. Posted in Lancet.
The study now shows 2.11 billion adults between the ages of 25 years or higher and 493 million children and a young man between the ages of five to 24 years with weight gain or obesity. This increases from 731 million and 198 million, respectively in 1990.
The report says that more than half of those between the ages of 25 years or higher from all over the world (3.8 billion) without being affected by more than half of children and youth (746 million), without reforming the urgent policy (3.8 billion) and about a third of all children and youth (746 million).
The research predicts a particularly disturbing increase (121 %) in obesity between children and youth, with the expectation that the number will live with obesity 360 million by 2050.
“The unprecedented global epidemic of weight gain and obesity is a deep tragedy and tremendous social failure,” said Professor Emmanuella Jagdo from Washington University.
The study showed that the affected numbers differ all over the world. More than half of the adults classified as being overweight or obese in only eight countries: China (402 million), India (180 million), the United States (172 million), Brazil (88 million), Russia (71 million), Mexico (58 million), Indonesia (52 million), and a band (41 million).
By 2050, it is expected that one in three children and youth live with obesity (130 million) in only two regions – North Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean Sea region – with health, economic and societal, severe, The report says.
The researchers have warned that children everywhere gain weight faster than previous generations and that obesity occurs early, which increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer at a younger age.
For example, in high -income countries, about 7 % of men born in the 1960s were overly obese as they reached 25 years. But this increased to 16 % for men born in the 1990s, and they are expected to reach 25 % for men born in 2015.
In the United Kingdom, Lancet report He expected that among children between the ages of five to 14 years, obesity will increase from 12 % of girls in 2021 to 18.4 % in 2050, and from 9.9 % to 15.5 % in boys during the same period.
It is expected that you will reach nearly a quarter of the world’s excessive obesity population in 2050, which increases the pressure on the already burdened health care systems and the revival of services in low resources.
A second study was published on MondayThrough the World Obesity Union, he has particularly warned of the impact of obesity in poor countries.
Its authors wrote: “To a large extent, the largest number of early deaths attributed to the high body mass index in low and high-income countries-referring to the levels of abuse available.”
“Obesity has great health, economic and societal effects that are likely to be more challenging for low resources,” said Johanna Rallston, CEO of the World Obesity Forum.
The researchers behind Lancet’s study referred to some restrictions, including that while they used the best available data, expectations were restricted to the amount and quality of the previous data. The potential effect of emerging interventions has not been seen, such as weight loss medications.
Writing in a related commentThornyd Sorensen of the University of Copenhagen, who did not participate in the research, said that the size of the obesity crisis is now so important that there should be general health interventions around the world.