By 2025, one in five people in the world will be obese – Kommersant

Imperial College London published a study, which says that in less than ten years due to malnutrition obese will suffer one in five people in the world. Scientists believe that the difference can be when food rich in sugars and fats, will not be cheaper than healthier food, as they are now, and is more expensive.

Research at Imperial College London, published in the medical journal The Lancet. Scientists conducted research in 200 countries and found that now is at least one of eight people is overweight. The study is based on the body mass index indices (BMI) which is calculated individually for each person: the ratio of height and weight. On a normal weight is said indicators range from 18.5 to 24.9. The lower limit, signaling the early stage of obesity, is considered an indicator of 30 and over 40 – about the dangerous degree of obesity. “Worldwide, the number of people whose weight poses a serious threat to their health, higher than ever,” -. Said Majid Ezzati, a professor at Imperial College London

According to the results study, the percentage of obese men as compared with the 1975 year increased more than threefold, while women – twice. If this trend continues, by 2025 obesity will be one in five people in the world, and this, according to estimates, will amount to 18% of men and 21% women. “Over the last 40 years the world has changed. Previously, people with low birth weight was twice larger than obese people, but now the opposite is true: the number of overweight people prevails over those who have underweight “, – says Mr. Ezzati. The reason for this jump BMI experts see that more and more people goes on a diet that includes plenty of red meat, refined sugars and saturated fats. Professor Ezzati believes that obesity has gained such proportions that only the tablet and “additional bikeways” here can not cope. For a radical change in the situation for the better, he offers economic measures – to make prices more junk food, saturated with lots of fat and sugar, were higher than in the more healthy foods

The greatest number of obese people living in developed countries such as USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. They constitute about 1/5 of the total. Among the US leads the above mentioned countries. The second place in the number of obese people, occupy the Middle East and North Africa. Most indicators are as low BMI in the East Timorese, Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Karina Rzayev