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By 2015, the number of overweight people is expected to rise to 2.3 billion. The calculations are by the World Health Organization (WHO). Only 6 years ago - in 2005, the number of overweight people was 1.6 billion.
By 2015, the number of adults with weight problems is expected to increase from 400 million (as they are now) to 700 million. This means that approximately every third inhabitant of the planet will be overweight.
According to the Ministry of Health, 60% of Bulgarians over the age of 18 are overweight and 20% of them are obese. On average, 20% of children between the ages of 7-18 are overweight, and 1/4 of them are obese.
The number of adolescents with problem weight is growing, despite the enacted Ordinance on Healthy Eating for Students, which prohibits the sale of products high in fat and sugar in school canteens and cafeterias.
And according to a report by the Consumer International, overweight and obesity are becoming a global epidemic. Adolescents generally prefer unhealthy foods.
Obesity is a disease that is due to excessive accumulation of adipose tissue in the human body. Depending on the degree of this accumulation, the condition is defined as being overweight or obese.
Obesity is the result of a disturbed energy balance - the ratio between the energy value of food and human energy expenditure - ie people gain weight when they consume more calories than they burn.
Excess calories are stored in the body in the form of fat. Obese people carry a huge amount of excess fat and the risks to their health are serious.
Overweight is the cause of a number of diseases: cardiovascular (atherosclerosis, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, stroke), type 2 diabetes, malignant neoplasms, gout, joint and respiratory diseases, and others. As a result, obesity shortens life and leads to premature death.
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