another 11 million obese people in the UK

An impressive new study done by a research team from the University of Oxford and Columbia University shows that if the existing obesity trends continue the number of obese and overweight people in the UK and the US will continue to rise to catastrophic levels.

The research which was printed in the medical journal The Lancet claims that there will be an extra 65 million obese people in America by the year 2030 meaning that around 50 percent of people in America will be clinically obese. The researchers also said that there would be another 11 million obese people in the UK.

The real concern of the governments of the UK and America is the huge financial costs related to obesity. Obesity related disease costs the state billions in extra health care costs and lost productivity and there are concerns that free health care will have to be scrapped if the number of sick obese people continues to rise.

Obesity increases the likelihood of you suffering from diabetes, heart disease and cancer just to name a few and aggravates practically every other illness known to man. At present around 25 percent of the men in America are obese and almost 50 percent of African American women are also obese.

In America there have been some concerted efforts to deal with the problem of obesity and specifically childhood obesity but none of them have been able to stop the upward and onward trend of rising obesity statistics. At Ukmedix News we have always argued that strict legislation is required to deal with obesity in America and fast food restaurants should be regulated. 

There are some people who argue that legislation to regulate the food that we eat goes against the principles of freedom and the right to choose however since the vast majority of children do not choose to be obese and are suffering greatly as a result of fast food advertising and promotions specifically targeted at them legislation would actually set them free from the prison of obesity.

If you are overweight you should know that you are much more likely to suffer from hundreds of different illnesses and your weight problem could end up killing you.  Get some help sooner rather than later!