Facts About Obesity In Humans

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Facts About Obesity In Humans
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• Probably you too are one in the list that desire
  and utterly require losing more than a few inches
  from their body. Obesity has become a global
  epidemic, steadily engulfing huge number of
  people every year. Here are some eye-widening
  facts about obesity which are recorded by various
  health organizations.

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Fact 1

• Worldwide obesity has nearly doubled since 1980.

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Fact 2

• In 2008, more than 1.4 billion adults, 20 and
  older, were overweight. Of these over 200 million
  men and nearly 300 million women were obese.

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Fact 3

• Overweight and obesity are the fifth leading risk
  for global deaths. At least 2.8 million people
  each year die as a result of being overweight or
  obese.

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Fact 4

• Globally, 42 million preschool children were
  overweight in 2013

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Fact 5

• 65 of the world's population lives in a country
  where overweight and obesity kills more people
  than underweight.

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Fact 6

• Globally, 44 of diabetes, 23 of ischemic heart
  disease and 741 of certain cancers are
  attributable to overweight and obesity.

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Fact 7

• 35 of adults aged 20 and over were overweight in
  2008, and 11 were obese.

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Fact 8

• According to the American Cancer Society, 572,000
  Americans die of cancer each year, about
  one-third of these cancer deaths are linked to
  excess body weight, poor nutrition and/or
  physical inactivity.

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Fact 9

• As of 2006, there were more people in the world
  who are overweight than malnourished.

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Fact 10

• Mexico has the largest number of obese people,
  more than anywhere else in the world. By 2010,
  seven out of ten Mexicans were overweight with a
  third clinically obese

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Fact 11

• Lack of sleep can cause weight gain of 2 pounds
  (0.9 kg) in under a week.

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Fact 12

• Obese drivers are 78 more likely to die in a car
  crash.

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Fact 13

• New Zealand will deny people residency visas if
  they are overweight. There have been cases of
  people rejected because of obesity.

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Fact 14

• Over 300,000 deaths in the US a year are
  attributed to obesity. Obesity is second only to
  smoking as a cause of premature death in the
  United States.

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Fact 15

• If a childs parents are overweight or obese, a
  child has an 80 chance of becoming overweight as
  well.

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