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Obesity could knock economic output as severely as malnutrition,
which shaves as much as 3 percent off production in the poorest
countries, a World Bank specialist said recently in a conference
held at Istanbul for managing and curbing obesity around the
world.
WHO feels that its time that something needs to be done to
curb obesity as the figures are only rising, mainly amongst
children, and this could imply serious economic implications
for many countries. Obesity is 6% of all health care costs
across Europe. In Europe in the past two decades; half of
all adults and 20% of all children are overweight.
Being overweight or obese increases the risk of many diseases
like diabetes and cancer and shortens life expectancy. And
most developed countries are being overrun by fast food chains
and decreasing number of people exercising is only adding
to the unhealthy lifestyle and over all resulting in increased
weight and obese people.
Many pharmaceutical companies over the years have manufactured
various diet pills such phentermine Adipex
and Didrex which are intended to help people, who are obese
and are unable to lose weight through other conventional ways.
These diet pills have been in the market for a very long time.
Most of these weight loss pills are prescription diet pills
and should be taken only under strict supervision of the doctor.
As most of these diet
pills have serious side effects and cannot be taken for
a long period of time, weight loss diet pills have not proved
a very effective way of losing weight. Most of these diet
pills once stopped, one tends to gain the weight back unless
there is a drastic change in lifestyle and eating.
There are dozens of weight
loss diet pills which are under clinical trials. Most
of the pharmaceutical companies are trying to cash on the
obese market and are constantly trying to come out with a
safe diet pill which can be administered for a long period
of time and help obese people lose weight.
Recently in Turkey, many governments felt that it is extremely
important to educate people and improve the availability of
healthy foods and adopting regulations for safer roads to
promote cycling and walking. WHO aims to curb the epidemic
in the next five years, and hopes to reverse the trend by
2015.
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