Obesity and Overweight in Europe
Obesity and Overweight in Europe
By Anthony Fletcher
29/08/2006 - A new UK government report into obesity has reignited the debate over who should take responsibility for the growing epidemic.
The department of health (DoH) report, which forecasts what levels of obesity in England may be in 2010 if current trends in obesity prevalence continue unchanged, makes for frightening reading. More than 12 million adults and 1 million children will be obese by 2010, and the growing obesity crisis is expected to cause thousands more people to suffer related diseases like cancer, heart disease and Type 2 diabetes.
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12/09/2006 - The oversimplification of the 'energy-in/energy out' equation is generating a fundamental public misunderstanding of the challenges of obesity, claims one scientist.
Professor Claude Bouchard, the outgoing president of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO), described the concept of serious weight gain being the result of just a small imbalance between energy intake and expenditure of as little as 15 kcals as defective. "This idea that obesity is the result of a tiny energy surplus accumulated over the years is quite misleading," Bouchard, a geneticist and executive director of Pennington Biomedical Research Center in the US, told this week's International Congress on Obesity in Sydney, Australia.
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08/09/2006 - With obesity continuing to grab the headlines, a joint US-Portuguese study of what affects the motivation to feed is said to contribute to a better understanding of how the brain responds to food stimuli.
The research suggests that a person's desire to eat, and when to stop eating, may be "all in their head". A deeper understanding of which parts of the brain control the motivation to eat may lead to a greater understanding of what leads certain people to overeat, a particular concern with over 14 million Europeans obese or overweight.
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13/09/2006 - The results of the EC's public consultation on promoting healthy diets and physical activity, published today, suggest that most stakeholders favour a multi-sector approach to tackling obesity.
This would involve EU policies such as agriculture, education, transport and urban planning and a range of different stakeholders across national, regional and local levels co-operating to find viable solutions. The consultation, which began in December 2005, came about because the EC felt the issue of obesity required co-ordinated action at EU level, as well as within Member States.
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UK to urge obese to be "personally responsible" for weight
By Stephen Daniells
21/08/2006 - A UK Government forecast is to predict that almost one third of the British population will be dangerously fat, with junk food and lack of exercise to blame, according to reports in The Independent.
Officials from the Department of Health are reported to be ready to urge adults to take "personal responsibility" for their weight, a move that is in stark contrast with recent suggestions that the food industry was behind the obesity epidemic and should exercise "corporate social responsibly", and virtually absolving consumers of accountability. Only last week, US paediatrician Robert Lustig, MD, from the University of California, San Francisco said that the "toxic environment" of Western diets causes hormonal imbalances that encourage overeating. The comments were heavily publicised by many consumer news services.
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France is heading towards American levels of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, claims a new study.
The Kaiser Permanente Study, which appears in the International Journal of Epidemiology, makes sober reading for a country that, more than any other, has placed gastronomy and good food at the heart of its national identity.
But a fast food culture that is quickly taking over more traditional patterns of consumption is changing the character not only of city centres and family meals, but also the countrys health profile.
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EUROPE - EPIDEMIC - OBESITY - FRANCE - OVERWEIGHT - DIABETES
As a byproduct of fast food convenience, genetic inheritance and often just pure laziness, obesity kills more than 300,000 Americans each year. But hold on to your seats - and make sure they don't break - because "wafer-thin" France is gaining on the United States in the fat race.
Forty-two percent of the French population is overweight or obese, according to a Jan. 25th New York Times article by Elaine Sciolino. Because child cases of obesity are increasing by 17 percent annually, by 2020 France might reach the U.S. obesity and overweight rate of more than 65 percent.
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America is overweight! Unbelievable but true, one out of every third American is overweight and that's enough to proof the authenticity of the statement. According to the reports of a recent survey 34 percent of U.S. adults aged 20 to 74 years are overweight, and an additional 27 percent are obese. About half of all women aged 20 to 74 are overweight or obese.
America is overweight! Unbelievable but true, one out of every third American is overweight and that's enough to proof the authenticity of the statement. According to the reports of a recent survey 34 percent of U.S. adults aged 20 to 74 years are overweight, and an additional 27 percent are obese. About half of all women aged 20 to 74 are overweight or obese.
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UK - FOOD - INDUSTRY - OBESITY - STRATEGY - DIETS
The UK food industry has called the EC green paper on the promotion of healthy diets a ‘sensible, integrated effort to tackle food and health issues’.
Launched this week, the paper outlines ways to promote healthy diets and physical activity in an attempt to tackle rising rates of childhood obesity and obesity-related disease.
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Why has the Commission made tackling obesity a public health priority?
The number of EU citizens who are overweight or obese is increasing rapidly. Over the past decade, obesity levels having risen by between 10-40% across the EU, and in some Member States over a quarter of the adult population is now obese. Moreover, there is no sign of this trend slowing. Perhaps even more concerning is the growing rate of obesity in children. Across the EU-25, almost 1 in 4 children are overweight, and the figure is rising by around 400 000 a year. Obesity is one of the top causes of preventable premature deaths in the EU. It is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, certain cancers, strokes, respiratory diseases and type-2 diabetes. In fact, the rise in some of these illnesses, particularly diabetes, over recent years has been directly linked to the rise in obesity levels.
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OBESITY - EUROPE - CHILDREN - PROBLEM - INDUSTRY - REGULATIONS
By Sarah Laitner in Brussels
Brussels will launch efforts to tackle Europe's obesity problem today, when it issues a discussion paper on promoting healthy diets and physical activity.
Markos Kyprianou, health commissioner, will ask what initiatives can encourage Europeans to take more exercise and switch to foods lower in fat, salt and sugar.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's health chief issued a public invitation on Thursday to find concrete ideas for tackling an alarming rise in obesity, especially among children, by promoting healthy diets coupled with more physical exercise.
Views on how to make fruits and vegetables more attractive to consumers, as well as improving the nutritional value of school meals, are included in an extensive European Commission survey that aims to curb Europeans' expanding waistlines.
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07 September 2005
By Gina Dellios.
Overweight and overt obesity are increasing in both sexes and at all ages in nearly all European countries, as the WHO-MONICA study and other WHO recent estimates have shown. The problem especially affects women and children of the Mediterranean and of Central and Eastern Europe.
Reasons for this growing problem are the steady increase of total caloric intake over the last decades and the absence of sufficient daily physical exercise. The resulting energy unbalance inevitably leads to obesity. In Southern Europe the departure from traditional Mediterranean diets toward manufactured foods over the years may be contributing to the trend. In particular, the high marketing pressure to consume foods high in total fat, refined sugar and salt makes children especially vulnerable, as a recent report of the European Heart Network, the Federation of Heart Foundations, recently pointed out.
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By Jess Halliday
03/02/2006 -
Consumers may be spending more on diet products, but it seems they are having little effect on overall obesity rates since they are not being used as part of an overall healthy diet, according to a new report from Datamonitor.
The market in diet products is booming in Europe. In 2004 it was worth US$49.2 billion (€40.7 billion) and is expected to increase to $58.2 (€48.2 billion) by 2009, predicts the report Overweight consumers and the future of food and drinks. But obesity rates are also on the up. Forty eight per cent of Europeans are currently classified as overweight or severely overweight, but this is expected to creep to 50 per cent by 2009.
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