Now that she's part of the problem, that is, according to
McKinsey Global Institute;
Obesity is now a critical global issue. More than 2.1 billion people –
nearly 30% of the global population – are overweight or obese today .... That’s nearly two and a half times the number of adults
and children who are undernourished. Obesity is responsible for about 5%
of deaths worldwide. Simon Stevens, chief executive of the National
Health Service England, warned in September that “we are sleepwalking
into the worst public health emergency for at least three decades.”
Thomas Piketty, call your office.
This was once a problem of relatively prosperous developed economies
but, as incomes rise in the emerging world, the problem is spreading.
Today, around 60% of the world’s obese people are in developing
countries.
Naturally that calls for more money being spent to get people to eat less.
So what needs to be done? By reviewing around 500 obesity-reduction
research trials around the world, MGI has identified 74 interventions to
address obesity in 18 areas. These include subsidised school meals for
all ...
Of course, the answer to obesity should be more food.
...calorie and nutrition labelling, restrictions on advertising of
high-calorie food and drinks, and public health campaigns. There were
sufficient data on 44 of these to be able to measure potential impact if
scaled up to a national level.
Or go back to the good old days when governments created famines?
No comments:
Post a Comment