Obesity Is Not Matter Of Look, Is Matter Of Health.

Here are some facts and articles regarding obesity.

• Obesity and overweight is defined as excessive and abnormal body fat accumulation which compromise our health.

• Obesity is one of the leading risk factors for early death.

• 8% of the global deaths were attributed to obesity in 2017. This is more than COVID-19 rate which is varies between the 1.1% in New Zealand and 3.6% in Iran.

• According to the National Institutes of Health, in the United States, obesity and overweight together are the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States, close behind tobacco use. An estimated 300,000 deaths per year are due to the obesity epidemic. Overweight and obesity were associated with nearly 1 in 5 deaths (18.2%) among adults in the United States from 1986 through 2006, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health. The mortality rate of the COVID-19 in US is 1.8%.

Key facts

• Worldwide obesity has n early tripled since 1975.

• In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these over 650 million were obese.

• 39% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight in 2016, and 13% were obese.

• Most of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight.

• 38 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2019.

• Over 340 million children and adolescents aged 5-19 were overweight or obese in 2016.

• Obesity is preventable.

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