A study revealed one in eight adults currently experiencing excess overweight or obese. A rising ratio of adults who are obese this ride doubled since 1975 and will increase to one in five adults in the year 2025.
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| Obesity is danger |
The latest survey report, from around five billion adults in 2014, 641 million of whom are obese. And predictable that number will swell approximately 1.1 billion people within nine years.
Therefore, the researchers warned the crisis onset of obesity over the diseases that come from excess fat and excess sugar that results in high blood pressure, cholesterol, too.
"There will be huge health consequences that we don't know," said the researchers from Imperial College London, Majid Ezzati.
Research issued the medical journal The Lancet is referred to as the most comprehensive to date involving respondents from two categories, namely category weight healthy and unhealthy mass index based on the body.
More detail, increase the numbers of obesity towards adults since 1975 consisted of men from 3.2% population rose to 10.8%. While in women rose rapidly, from 6.4% to 14.9%. This figure is equivalent to the average adult every decade who are over 18 years old gain weight 1.5 kilos.
"If the rate of obesity continues at this pace, by 2025 is estimated to be one-fifth of men (18%) and women (21%) would be obese," said a statement of The Lancet.
In the world, the population of people with excess weight at most is in Polynesia and Micronesia the year 2014. 38% of men and more than half of women in the country are experiencing weight problems.
While almost one-fifth of adults who are obese in the world, living in countries of high income, among others, United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
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