If you need more motivation to shed that winter weight, a new startling study predicts that about 60% of adults and nearly one -third of young people around the world will be overweight or obese by 2050.
“The unprecedented global epidemic of overweight and overweight is a deep tragedy and a monumental social failure,” said Emmanuela Gakidou, leading author of the study published Monday in Lancet.
The Gakidou team reports that the number of overweight and overweight adults increased from 731 million to 2.11 billion from 1990 to 2021. It is expected to increase to 3.8 billion by 2050.
The people of overweight and obese under 25 increased from 198 million to 493 million between 1990 and 2021. This number is projected to reach 746 million by 2050.
A spokesman for the University of Washington Institute for Metrics and Health Assessment (IHME), who led the study, blamed the growing crisis for unequal access to healthy foods, aggressive marketing of dumped foods, lack of safe space for physical activity, genetic predisposition to obesity and policy failures.
“Our study does not focus on identifying the underlying causes of the growing prevalence of overweight,” Ihme Post told. “On the contrary, we aim to present the tendencies and predictions of overweight epidemic all over the world.”
The study noted that we are gaining weight faster than previous generations – and being overweight is happening earlier.
In high -income countries, about 7% of men born in the 1960s were thick at the age of 25. It is now about 16% of men born in the 90s and a projected 25% of men born in 2015.
The US has the highest levels of overweight among high -income countries, with about 42% of men and 46% of women considered thick in 2021.
There were 172 million thick and overweight adults over 25 in the SH.BA in 2021 – 214 million were expected by 2050.
IHME said in the USA “priority population”, which require immediate intervention and treatment due to their overweight prevalence, include inhabitants of southern states, women between 15 and 24 in countries such as Mississippi, men of the same age in countries such as Oklahoma and Texas, adult men and adult women.
Meanwhile, more than half of thick and overweight adults in the world live in only eight countries – China, India, Sh.BA, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia and Egypt.
“After all, while overweight global levels continue to fly, much stronger political engagement is needed to transform diets within sustainable global food systems and support comprehensive strategies that improve people’s food, physical activity and living environments, whether or not enough elaborate food,” the author said Search for children Murdoch in Australia.
Obesity increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and some cancers.
Research – funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and considered that “the most complete global analysis so far” – there are restrictions.
The definition of overweight or obese is based on the index of body mass, which is criticized as a poor metric of health. Ihme said BMI still “remains a widely used and practical measure”.
The study also does not consider the impact of ozepic and jabs for similar weight loss, which can greatly affect the overweight epidemic.
Thorkild IA Sørensen – an expert in genetic and metabolic epidemiology from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, which was not included in the new study – said it should have a better understanding of the causes and mechanisms of overweight.
“The most pressing question in concerns about which interventions will be possible and effective,” Sørensen wrote in a research comment.
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