SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: World Health Organization, Fructose, Cheeseburger
12 Mar 2018
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Hunger/obesity according to the fao we have about 795 million undernourished people in the world according to the who 1. 9 billion people are overweigh and 600 million of them are obese. Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980 in 2014, more than 1. 9 billion adults, 18 years and older (r2s) 65% of the worlds population live in a country where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. This includes all high-income and middle income countries. Globally, 44% of diabetes, 23% of heart disease (r2s) Metric: bmi = weight (kilograms)/height (meters)2 greater than 30 is considered obese. Do we really have an obesity epidemic? some argue that there is no obesity epidemic and it is all coming from the diet industry pressures sociologist question this correlation between obesity and diabetes. Obesity: (nestle and jacobson) traditional ways of preventing and treating overweight and obesity have focused on changing the behaviour of individuals.
