39% of the global adult population is overweight [Salud] – 11/12/2018

Mexico.- Obesity is a relatively new disease because even when the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized it as a disease, it was only in 2013 that the 39; American Medical Association accepted it as such and other groups followed it. .

It is estimated that 39% of the adult population in the world is overweight and 13% more (600 million) are suffering from obesity.

The WHO said that in 2016, 2.8 million adults died from causes related to obesity in the world. This year, more than 41 million children under 5 were overweight or obese and 340 million between 5 and 19 years old had one of these conditions.

World Obesity Day is celebrated on November 12, and in this context, Obesity Week began in Nashville, Tennessee, where four thousand international medical specialists will meet to discuss progress and challenges. challenges in this area.

Organized by the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) and the Obesity Society (TOS), the central theme of this event will be the heart, a heart component of obesity.

Obesity is a chronic multifactorial disease that affects all age groups, different entities, gender and social classes, and has reached global epidemic levels.

For this reason, the WHO sees it as the 21st century epidemic and has called on all governments to join efforts to combat this disease of abnormal or excessive accumulation of fat that can be harmful diabetes and heart disease, among others.