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One speaks today of a real epidemic of obesity that doesn't save any region of the world. From Canada in Europe while passing by China, this phenomenon especially reaches the United States. With more of 55% of the population enduring ponderal overcharge, the United States detain the sad record of people enduring overweight. The obesity and the overweight constitute real problems of public health. ..The United States touched by the grease The obesity and the overweight are especially present in some American minorities, as well as at people having a weak income and a weak level of education. less 97 millions of American adults are not thus too big. According to the last numbers published by the prestigious magazine medical Newspaper of the American Medical Association (JAMA)1, the rate of obesity increased again in 1999 to the country of the uncle Sat. This rise of 5,6% per year represents a doubling of the number of obese American since 1991, in spite of the messages of sensitization and the numerous studies denouncing the risks for health bound to the obesity. It increases, among others, the risk of cardiovascular illnesses, cancer and diabetes. The diabetes increased 76% notably at the thirty-year old and 33% in the American general population between 1990 and 1998. In 1991, the obesity was at the origin of at least 300 000 deaths every year outrage-Atlantique2 and only tobacco would make more deaths.
..France preoccupied by the infantile obesity The emergent countries are not non saved: 60% of the Mexican population would be too big. In Egypt, 35% of the population are obese, in Saudi Arabia, 24% of the women are obese and 40% of the women in Kuwait.
In France, the increase of the number of obese would be less important and would concern the young women especially. According to an investigation of the INSEE, in 1991, 7% of the women were obese against 6,3% in 1980, whereas this illness doesn't seem to progress at the men (6,5% in 1991 against 6,4% in 1980). Finally, in a survey achieved by the draftees, he/it appeared that the proportion of the overweight in relation to the general population passes from 11,5 to 16,5% enters 1987 and 1996 and the one of the obesity of 1,5 to 3,1%. In last June the INSERM4 revealed that a child out of 10 is obese at the age of 10 years. According to this institute, the obesity entails deleterious effects on health to the adult age. "At the obese child, some anomalies appear, as an increase of the arterial pressure, of the total cholesterol or a hyperinsulinémie. At the children presenting a stern obesity, apneas of the sleep can release, as well as of the orthopedic pathologies. Of the cases of very precocious diabetes of type 2 (non insulino-dependent diabetes) are described, to the United States, at teenagers presenting a stern obesity". 2008-12-09
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