comments

1 billion people are overweight and 0.5 billion people are obese

Childhood obesity is associated with a higher probability of obesity in adulthood, which can lead to a variety of disabilities and diseases, such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.









Childhood obesity is associated with a higher probability of obesity in adulthood, which can lead to a variety of disabilities and diseases, such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.



RELATED ARTICLESExplain
⌅
Agriculture, food and land use
⌃
Improving Diet and Nutrition
⌃
1. Challenges for global diet & nutrition
⌃
Large-scale malnutrition in developing and developed countries
■
1 billion people are overweight and 0.5 billion people are obese
↳
Causes of growing obesity
↳
The obese poor tend to be poorly nourished as well
↳
People who are obese are more prone to infectious diseases
↳
Poor people in rich countries tend to be more obese than rich people
⇤
Increased risk of early death
⇤
Increased risk of infectious diseases
⇤
Increased risk of Non-Communicable Diseases
⇤
Rising healthcare costs aren't factored into food prices
⇤
Early onset of dementia
□
Consequences of malnutrition
□
2 billion people are underweight and 1 billion are hungry
□
Double burden of under- and over-nutrition for some countries
□
Graph of this discussion
Enter the title of your article


Enter a short (max 500 characters) summation of your article
Enter the main body of your article
Lock
+Comments (0)
+Citations (1)
+About
Enter comment

Select article text to quote
welcome text

First name   Last name 

Email

Skip