Obesity can not be taken lightly - the intention of not pun - countries like United States and Mexico buckling under the weight of a global epidemic.
Most health experts are in agreement that the spread of Western life style is largely guilt; junk more food is not enough exercise.
And now a new study says that the number of overweight or obese people in the United States is swell by 2020.
The study by the Organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD), a France based group that works with the free market, democratic Nations, said in the year 2020, three in four Americans will be overweight or obese, increasing fees and costs of health care disease.
Obesity's price tag is amazing.In 1998, $ 78.5 million was spent on medical treatment United States related to obesity, equaling 9.1% of medical expenses of todo.NationMaster.com qualifies United States, Mexico United States as three more obese nation above, in that order.
OECD also fingers United States as fat nation in the world and forecasts for the year 2010, 75% of Americans will be with sobrepeso.Es why OECD calls for cooperation of interaction and government industry curb the crisis.
Authors of the study have blamed bad habits to break in obesity: consume too much junk food high in calories, not receiving sufficient exercise and more people eating in restaurants, instead of cooking at home.
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Therefore, do you think we can stop the obesity epidemic?
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