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29/05/2013
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Obesity now kills more than hunger. According to the Global Burden of Disease study ("Weight Global Disease") in 1990, malnutrition was the disease most "weight", ie, one that took more years of healthy life of humanity. Now, she dropped to eighth place. While obesity climbed from tenth to sixth - and poor diet, a diet poor in nutrients, in fifth (the four major risk factors are high blood pressure, smoking, alcohol use and pollution).
To reduce the damage these changing habits, diets low in nutritional value and high in fats and sugars, the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted, by consensus, a resolution that recommends efforts to reduce obesity in the world by 2020. The resolution establishes a plan of action against noncommunicable diseases (cardiovascular, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes), through the fighting a number of risk factors, including obesity.
Homer Simpson: symbol of the contemporary way of inadequate nutrition and sedentarismo.A idea is to reduce, on average, 30% of salt intake by 20% and increase physical activity. The WHO estimate that there are over 40 million children under 5 years are overweight. Data from the Household Budget Survey of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, indicate that in 2009, 21.7% of Brazilians in the range of 10 to 19 years were overweight. In 1970, the rate was 3.7%.
In Brazil, the Ministry of Health reduced the minimum age for bariatric surgery from 18 to 16 years. Prior to surgery, the youth must undergo a clinical evaluation. The medical record must include the analysis of bone age and careful assessment of the risk benefit, made by a team with participation of two specialists.
The maximum age, 65 years previously, was also changed. With the ordinance, defining whether the patient should undergo surgery will not be made based on age, but taking into account the clinical assessment (risk and benefit), may not exceed the limit currently set.
Additionally, targets were set to reduce trans fats and sodium in processed foods. Other measures, not yet approved, but much discussed, as the regulations would restrict the advertising of foods and beverages low in nutrients and high in sugar, saturated fat or sodium, aimed at children and adolescents and the sale of nutrient-poor foods in schools .
For experts, it is essential that governments encourage and facilitate access to fruits and vegetables. There are also recommendations to encourage children to healthy eating. The recent WHO estimates indicate that at least one adult at each three suffering from overweight and one in ten is obese.
"The fight against obesity is a priority, one of the most important factors to combat non-communicable diseases," said the director of the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development of WHO, Francesco Branca. According to him, the excess weight is the fifth risk factor for death worldwide, killing about 2.8 million adults annually.
* With information from the Agency Brazil and Sustainable Planet
Source: UOL - Modern Consumer
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