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There is a whole new theory about the poor health of our planet and those of us who live there.
A new study indicates that obesity, undernutrition and climate change are so closely linked that they can no longer be treated separately.
Eating too much red meat and processed foods, as well as an excessive dependence of cars, contribute to obesity and climate change. Add to that undernutrition and you get what is labeled "Global Syndrome".
Boyd Swinburn, Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health, is co-chairing a major new report commissioned by The Lancet. The report found that obesity, malnutrition and climate change together constitute the greatest threat to human and global health.
"It is a synergy of epidemics that occur in time and in space, that interact with each other and have common factors," said Professor Swinburn.
He says that we can no longer fight against obesity, or global under-nutrition, regardless of climate change.
"We have climate change, which gets out of control and not enough action, and obesity becomes out of control and not enough action – and hello, they are caused by the same social problems."
Consuming too much red meat has been linked to cancer and obesity, while agriculture is a major contributor to greenhouse gases.
Over-dependence on cars leads to a period of excessively sedentary life and generates carbon dioxide emissions.
Dr. Ihi Heke, health expert for indigenous peoples, says that if our planet is sick, we are.
"Whakapapa shows the causal links between the environment, such as climate change, and how we can recognize them and cause change in people," he says.
"So we are closely linked to the environment, everything that happens to the environment happens to us."
The authors of the report say that the three epidemics are caused by the same things, so it is necessary to put in place government policies that affect them all.
They say that if we do not treat the triple burden as one, we and the planet will suffer.
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