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Mexico, Australia, Germany, India, China, all have massive problems of
obesity
and bad health.
It costs way less than
obesity
now.
Obesity
costs you Americans 10 percent of your health-care bills, 150 billion dollars a year.
Her father, who was obese, died in her arms, And then the second most important man in her life, her uncle, died of obesity, and now her step-dad is obese.
You see, the thing is,
obesity
and diet-related disease doesn't just hurt the people that have it; it's all of their friends, families, brothers, sisters.
Ten percent of what we spend on health care, as I said earlier, is on obesity, and it's going to double.
My wish is for you to help a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, to inspire families to cook again, and to empower people everywhere to fight
obesity.
And
obesity
we already talked about, the ways to get to that.
So, that's probably a bit of a counter-intuitive idea, so I'll say it again, let it sink in: If we want to solve problems like hunger, poverty, climate change, global conflict, obesity, I believe that we need to aspire to play games online for at least 21 billion hours a week, by the end of the next decade.
We started a childhood
obesity
initiative with the Heart Association in America.
So my first topic with respect to this, was not death, but
obesity.
And, along with my collaborator, James Fowler, we began to wonder whether
obesity
really was epidemic and could it spread from person to person like the four people I discussed earlier.
It says that, if your friends are obese, your risk of
obesity
is 45 percent higher.
And the next bar over, the [red] line, says if your friend's friends are obese, your risk of
obesity
is 25 percent higher.
And then the next line over says if your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of
obesity
is 10 percent higher.
And we found that if your friend becomes obese, it increases your risk of
obesity
by about 57 percent in the same given time period.
A lot of complexity, a lot is happening just in this 30-year period that includes the
obesity
epidemic.
Now, finally, I've talked to you about food, and I've talked to you about cancer, so there's just one more disease that I have to tell you about, and that's
obesity.
So this approach that we're taking for cancer prevention may also have an application for
obesity.
I hope I've convinced you that for diseases like cancer,
obesity
and other conditions, there may be a great power in attacking their common denominator: angiogenesis.
And those have been linked then with the rather alarming, growing rates of obesity, shown in these maps here, and that
obesity
has also been triggering great increases in heart disease and diabetes to the point where a child born today has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes.
But the bigger problem that we all know about is obesity, and it's dramatic.
The other thing that's dramatic is that both hunger and
obesity
have really risen in the last 30 years.
Unfortunately,
obesity'
s not only an American problem.
So those seem like two bifurcated problems, but I kind of started to think about, you know, what is
obesity
and hunger?
And in America, a lot of what we eat has led to
obesity
and has led to a real change in sort of what our diet is, in the last 30 years.
And in one generation, they're going from hunger and all of the detrimental health effects of hunger to
obesity
and things like diabetes and heart disease in one generation.
So the problematic food system is affecting both hunger and
obesity.
And I think by aligning international advocates that are addressing hunger and domestic advocates that are addressing obesity, we might actually look for long-term solutions that will make the food system better for everyone.
Number four and five were childhood
obesity
and diabetes-related issues.
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