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India harbours second highest number of obese children in the world;
China tops list
Obesity is one of the biggest problems at present, that is rapidly
becoming a part of everyone's life. The rising number of obese people around
the world just goes to show how we are allowing a particular lifestyle to
dictate us into an unhealthy state of being.
A recent study just declared that more than one in 10 people worldwide
are now obese and 2.2 billion are believed to be overweight, fueling a global
health crisis that claims millions of lives every year. Now, making it
case-specific, a report in the Times of India (TOI) has recognised India with
the second highest childhood obesity rate, second only to China.
The alarming study also found that 14.4 million kids in the country
have excess weight. Researchers observed that more than two billion children
and adults around the world suffer from obesity-related health problems. Not
only that, but an increasing number also lose their lives due to these
conditions. However, of the four million deaths attributed to excess body
weight in 2015, nearly 40% occurred among people whose body mass index (BMI)
fell below the threshold considered "obese".
As per the TOI report, the findings represent "a disturbing global
public health crisis," according to a study published in The New England
Journal of Medicine. Among the 20 most populous countries, the highest level of
obesity among kids and young adults was in the US at nearly 13%; Egypt topped
the list for adult obesity at about 35%. Lowest rates were in Bangladesh and
Vietnam, respectively, at 1%.
Statistics reveal that China is leading in childhood obesity rates with
15.3 million, while India is a close second with 14.4 million. In 2015, US
recorded 79.4 million and China with 57.3 million cases respectively of the
highest numbers of obese adults.
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corrects his own
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