Obesity - a global pandemic

Obesity is becoming a global pandemic and a greater threat than bird flu or Left

Some people are obese on the streets of Sydney
(Photo: AP)

The soil warms up. It is a general warning of more than 2,500 health professionals attending the International Conference on Anti-Obesity in Sydney, Australia from September 3.

At the conference this week, Professor Paul Zimmet, Monash University diabetes expert (Australia) and conference chairman, identified obesity as a latent and gradual epidemic, swallowing up world. He said the number of obese people in the world is more than the number of 600 million malnourished people.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than one billion adults are overweight, of which more than 300 million are overweight, so they are at risk of diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and sudden death. Cramps and some forms of cancer. This conference discusses how to reduce rising obesity. American, British and Australian experts say that every year these countries spend billions of dollars to treat obesity-related diseases.

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