We Are Not Breaking The Back Of The Obesity Epidemic
Yesterday, I told you how junk food manufacturers like Coca-Cola are forking out billions to pay researchers and so-called medical ‘experts’ to publicly cast doubt over the known link between sugar consumption and obesity.
The effect this is having on the global population is dire.
Recently, the United Nations (UN) said that the dramatic rise in global obesity rates puts the UN goals on reducing diet-related diseases, like obesity and diabetes, ‘beyond reach’.
A big fat crisis
Back in 2011, concern over the rise in diabetes, heart disease, cancer and other conditions fuelled by obesity led to a UN summit, where the World Health Organisation (WHO) was commissioned to set targets to bring down the alarming rate of weight gain across the planet. It set a goal for 2025 of no increase in obesity or diabetes beyond the levels of 2010.
For example, back in 2010 figures from the World Obesity Federation (WOF) showed that in the UK there were 54 severely obese people for every 1,000. Now, if there was going to be no increase in the rise of obesity over 15 years, those numbers would’ve stayed exactly the same.
However, in 2014, there were 61 severely obese people per 1,000, in the UK… and the WOF’s projection is that in 2025, 79 in every 1,000 people will be severely obese in the UK alone.
And this increase is a global trend.
A recent study predicted that by 2025, 80 per cent of Australia’s population will be overweight or obese. Keep in mind, Australia is considered to be one of the healthiest countries in the world.
Commenting on the prospect of missing the UN target, a spokesperson for the WHO said: “Indeed the rates of overweight and obesity are increasing globally… We do not see at this time that the current global target of ‘no increase in obesity’ will be met in adults or adolescents unless urgent focused action to reduce overweight and obesity is taken by countries and other stakeholders.”
How is it possible to take ‘urgent action’ when global food manufacturing giants, like Coca-Cola, pay researchers and other experts to support their sugar-laden and obesity-causing products?
Even worse, is the fact that our governments seem to be perfectly happy to employ the very same people who are receiving funding from Big Food to be in charge of putting obesity strategies in place.
That’s exactly what happened in the UK.
Professor Susan Jebb, who is overseeing the UK’s obesity strategy, also received £194,652 from Coca-Cola for a clinical trial… And we trust this person to give us guidance about healthy eating habits and putting an end to obesity?
No wonder the obesity epidemic is getting dramatically worse… and as much as I’m one for taking personal responsibility for my own health and what kind of food I put into my body, Big Food and its cronies have a lot to answer for.
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Sources:
Global obesity rise puts UN goals on diet-related diseases ‘beyond reach’, published online 09.10.15, theguardian.com
