Obesity killing three times as many as malnutrition

Thu Dec 13, 2012 11:03 pm » by **Flecktarn**

Obesity is now killing triple the number of people who die from malnutrition as it claims more than three million lives a year worldwide, according to a landmark study.
With the exception of sub-Saharan Africa, eating too much is now a more serious risk to the health of populations than eating poorly, found the Global Burden of Disease study, published in a special edition of The Lancet.
Across the world, there has been significant success in tackling malnutrition, with deaths down two-thirds since 1990 to less than a million by 2010.
But increasing prosperity has led to expanding waistlines in countries from Colombia to Kazakhstan, as people eat more and get less everyday exercise.
Dr Majid Ezzati, chair of global environmental health at Imperial College London, and one of the lead authors of the report, said: “We have gone from a world 20 years ago where people weren’t getting enough to eat to a world now where too much food and unhealthy food – even in developing countries – is making us sick.”
Between 1990 and 2010 overall global life expectancy at birth rose by about five years. The ‘average’ boy born in 2010 can expect expect to live to 67.5 and the ‘average’ girl to 73.3.

But people are spending more of their later years in poor health, due largely to increases in diseases linked to obesity, including type II diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
Dr Christopher Murray, director of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in the US, and another of the lead authors, said: “We’re finding that very few people are walking around with perfect health and that, as people age, they accumulate health conditions.”
These problems had “profound implications for health systems as they set priorities”, he said.
In the UK, male life expectancy rose from 72.9 to 77.8 from 1990 to 2010, and female life expectancy from 78.3 to 81.9.
Any individual’s death is caused by a number of interrelated factors - for example, death by stroke could be caused by high blood pressure, smoking and being overweight.
But using statistics, scientists are able to tease out one factor from the other to give estimates of how many people die from one particular cause.
Using this method, they believe being obese has risen from the 10th most important risk factor for death in 1990, to the sixth. More than three million now die from having a ‘high body mass index’ , an 82 per cent increase.
High blood pressure has risen from fourth to first, and now accounts for some nine million deaths annually.
Drinking and smoking are increasing problems too. Alcohol use rose from sixth to third and tobacco (including passive smoking) from third to second. Smoking accounted for 6.3 million deaths in 2010 and alcohol consumption 4.9 million.
But Prof Ezzati said action could be taken to address the new problems faced by doctors worldwide.
"The good news is there are lots of things we can do to reduce disease risk," he said.
"To bring down the burden of high blood pressure, we need to regulate the salt content of food, provide easier access to fresh fruits and vegetables, and strengthen primary healthcare services.”
The report noted some major improvements in the global health, most notably in children’s health.
There have been big falls since 1990 in deaths attributed to children being underweight, and to poor breastfeeding.
Child mortality (deaths under five years) dropped by almost 60 per cent between 1970 and 2010, from 16.4 million a year to 6.8 million.
There have also been significant falls in deaths attributed to poor water quality and sanitation.

this story comes out at a time when most people are getting ready to stuff themselves silly with food ,just stick to alcohol as it makes party's more fun

Thu Dec 13, 2012 11:59 pm » by **Cwmman**

just take a slice or two off the fattys and feed it to them who need it.

two birds one stone.................. or a few stone or two.

Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:03 am » by **E6722maj**

perfectly sums up the fucked up state this world is in :vomit:

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Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:14 am » by **Marcydare**

Take away their Food Stamp Card. :flop:

Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:23 am » by **domdabears**

Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:35 am » by **Chaindrive**

Fat people arent fat because their fat..... we all know its whats inside the food that makes them fat.. relief food shipped to starving countries, you know thats not food at all.. every spec of nutrition that was in that wheat is now gone... Hell even cows eat better then anybody getting food relief.. therefore you have to eat more because your body isnt getting what its suppose to.. Eat a whole semi of that crap that starving countries get and youll still be hungry..

Next, the eating disorder to which your brain cant tell your body that it had enough (CSI had a episode a few years ago about it).. and you basically eat yourself to death without even knowing it.

Then I suppose we have to cross over to one of the seven deadly sins: Gluttony:

Derived from the Latin gluttire, meaning to gulp down or swallow, gluttony (Latin, gula) is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste.

In Christian religions, it is considered a sin because of the excessive desire for food, and its withholding from the needy.

Because of these scripts, gluttony can be interpreted as selfishness; essentially placing concern with one's own interests above the well-being or interests of others.

Medieval church leaders (e.g., Thomas Aquinas) took a more expansive view of gluttony, arguing that it could also include an obsessive anticipation of meals, and the constant eating of delicacies and excessively costly foods. Aquinas went so far as to prepare a list of six ways to commit gluttony, including:

Praepropere - eating too soon.
Laute - eating too expensively.
Nimis - eating too much.
Ardenter - eating too eagerly (burningly).
Studiose - eating too daintily (keenly).
Forente - eating wildly (boringly).

Fri Dec 14, 2012 2:12 am » by **Cwmman**

Eat when your hungry, dont eat your breakfast because you`ve been told to eat at breakfast time, 6, 7, 8, 9 0`clock.

The same goes for your dinner and tea why eat at set times ? because it makes sense ? It makes more sense to eat your food when your hungry.

Fri Dec 14, 2012 2:39 am » by **Toxic32**

Looks to me as if the USA is using a nuke on them selves. Death by GREED. Looks like they will eat them selves to death. Come on and get me boys I'm full of babies. If you can find the hole to inseminate them? You can have my share!

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