Obesity is a disease with multiple causes and many complications. Some important figures: More than A billion people are obese Today and 50% of the population will be overweight or obesity in 2030.
Like every year, the World Obesity Day The March 4, 2025 and is organized by the World Obesity Federation In collaboration with its international members and whose motto is “Change healthy life systems“.
This date wants to increase awareness about the Terrible damage that a high diet entails for the body in fats and sugars. And brave healthy eating and healthy habits.
This special day is a chance for:
- Strengthening knowledge about obesity
- Offers better support to people Obesas
- Remember that obesity It is a disease that can be prevented and treated, thanks to an adequate diet
This day was created to call up action at local, national and world level of the serious problem that this disease represents. Rates are growing percentages of obesityReduce the stigma with which people are confronted obesity and improve systems that contribute to obesity In the world.
An unknown disease
Obesity implies that the affected person has an excess fat mass and an adjustment of fatty tissue. This condition is extremely harmful to those who suffer from it. Because associated damage such as diabetes and/or hypertension entails. That is why it can negatively influence life expectancy. It is even worse, the causes are complex.
Obesity is the result of the interdependence of various factors: diet, genetic, environment and epigenetic. Because they are all involved in the development and progression of this chronic illness. But in addition to physical health risks, there are others of the psychological type, with internal and external origin.
Some figures
Obesity has been affected almost the entire planet, including many emerging countries. This disease is considered a serious worldwide problem. It affects more than a billion people who suffer from it. But there are more millions who run the risk of getting sick.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 40 of the adults are overweight worldwide and slightly less than 15% are obese. In fact, the number of things has tripled over the past 50 years.
And the most disturbing thing is that the number of children suffering from this condition is increasingly alarming. In Spain, 1 in 3 minors have a problem with regard to his weight.
Associated complications, in particular type 2 diabetes, different types of cancer and heart disease, cause the death of more than 3 million people per year. The World Health Organization has classified obesity and overweight as the fifth cause of death worldwide.
Stereotypes and myths
There are still many people who think who is fat, is because he wants to. Because he eats without control or whatever he wants. And/or because he is not interested in diet. On the other hand, there are also obese and/or overweight people who claim that they ‘feel good’ and have a healthy life, so their weight is no problem.
In both cases there is a basic error. And this is only solved with information. Obesity is a dangerous disease that can pass ‘invoice at the most unexpected moment’.
But it’s a pathology, not a choice. Nobody is fat because he wants thatAlthough many who are unknown that it has a condition that can get worse and who need professional help to overcome it.