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Many people suffer from chronic ailments, such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and depression and other mental disorders.
Soft Drinks, Hard QuestionsOXFORD – In March, the British government announced that it intends to introduce a tax on sugary drinks in 2018 to tackle childhood obesity.
Obesity and its related ailments take a long time to develop, and isolating the effects of food taxes from changes caused by other health policies and cultural trends is challenging.
While lucrative, this business model is closely linked to obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases.
Moreover, new health risks are emerging, with diabetes, obesity, and other non-communicable diseases now stalking low- and middle-income countries – even as many of those countries are still locked in combat with tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases.
More than 40 other epigenetic drugs are being developed, not only for cancer, but also for obesity and even dementia.
Moreover, intrauterine malnutrition can increase the risk of chronic conditions like obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease during adulthood.
Despite much higher rates of obesity in high-income countries, premature death and disability from heart disease, cancers, and other NCDs have declined substantially.
Two centuries ago, the science and medical communities had not yet accepted the germ theory of disease, and the smell of beef was commonly thought to cause obesity.
The result is an obesity rate of 33.7%, the highest by far in the OECD, with enormous adverse consequences for non-communicable diseases.
Among other things, such surveys should aim to create a clear picture of adolescents’ exposure to avoidable risk factors, such as alcohol and illicit drug use, unsafe sexual behaviors, violence, obesity, physical inactivity, and unhealthy diet.
Moreover, as Nancy Childs, a business school professor, wrote in Nutrition Business Journal in 2004, functional foods for obesity, for example, promise their manufacturers “a double reward”: eligibility for qualified health claims and possible reimbursement under Medicare as a disease treatment.
They also provide “balance to food company product portfolios, thereby limiting corporate liability on both legal and stock valuation fronts” – a reference to potential claims against companies that their products might cause obesity or poor health.
The double burden of malnutrition – with hunger existing alongside obesity, diabetes, and other diseases of overconsumption – clearly shows the increasing importance of global dietary rebalancing.
But its value is increasingly being questioned, especially in obesity research, where body-composition measurements are proving to be far more relevant.
Thus, studies of the genetics of obesity that are based on a relationship between certain genetic markers and the BMI are also meaningless.
But one must turn to body-composition measurements for any serious epidemiological and etiological studies on obesity.
We can attempt to stop diabetes without rejecting diabetics, and to eliminate obesity without demonizing the obese.
Moreover, silent epidemics have taken hold, particularly in lower-income countries, as the combination of mega-trends like urbanization, population aging, obesity, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, and alcohol consumption has spurred the rise of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
That this should happen while developed nations waste hundreds of millions of tons of grain and soybeans by feeding them to animals, and obesity reaches epidemic proportions, undermines our claims to believe in the equal value of all human life.
Accounting for diminished economic productivity, direct costs to health-care systems, and the investment required to mitigate the impact of obesity, the McKinsey report places the annual losses at $2 trillion, or 2.8% of world GDP.
This grim situation has led the World Health Organization – and the United Nations more generally – to recognize obesity as an epidemic that must be addressed urgently.
Last year, US official statistics reported a 43% decrease in childhood obesity since 2004, mainly during the second half of the decade – a shift that may have been driven, at least partly, by targeted interventions.
But recent numbers suggest the opposite: the conference underestimated these figures – not least with regard to obesity.
With coordinated and concerted policy action – underpinned by strong political commitment – we can make great strides toward eliminating malnutrition in all its forms, including hunger, micronutrient deficiencies (or “hidden hunger”), and the diet-related non-communicable diseases associated with obesity.
With obesity rising fast, there is no time to waste.
The Global Obesity ThreatLONDON/MELBOURNE – In 2010, humanity passed an important milestone.
According to the Global Burden of Disease Study, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, obesity became a bigger public-health problem than hunger.
Obesity is responsible for about 5% of deaths worldwide.
The total economic impact of obesity is about $2 trillion a year, or 2.8% of world GDP – roughly equivalent to the economic damage caused by smoking or armed violence, war, and terrorism, according to new research by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI).
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