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Obesity, And Why It Ain’t Good For One’s Health.

Updated: Oct 28, 2020

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We tend to associate obesity with excess weight gain. Very true. That happens externally. We can see the buildup of the paunch. The fleshiness. The excess weight. That happens. Some of the key statistics of obesity, as indicated by the World Health Organisation, is presented below:

  • In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these over 650 million were obese.

  • 39% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight in 2016, and 13% were obese.

  • Most of the world’s population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight.

  • 38 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2019.

  • Over 340 million children and adolescents aged 5–19 were overweight or obese in 2016.

650 million obese people suggests that roughly 10% of the global population is obese. Is that a problem? The National Institute of Health indicates that obese people are at a higher risk of developing various health problems, a full list of which can be found here. In fact, obesity also provides a much higher risk to suffering the severe symptoms of a COVID-19 infection, if one were to be infected.

 

But what is happening on the molecular level within the cells in our body?


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