Overweight and clairvoyance: a good resolution?
Isn’t clairvoyance a good starting point for any “good resolution”? It allows, by common sense, to keep its commitments in the long term and not to feel alone among the 2 billion overweight people out of the 7 billion individuals that we are…
Eating habits and new information and communication technologies
According to a recent study(1), 3/4 of Americans eat dishes containing saturated fatty acids, salt and sugar in quantity. In Europe, it is approximately the same. Faced with this “Western saturation”, the “emerging countries” are of interest to industrialists. Since the 1990s, India, Brazil, Russia and Mexico, then Latin America, South Africa, Central Europe and finally Asia and the African continent have found themselves under the yoke of multinationals.
The process of globalizationhas greatly changed the lives of the inhabitants. According to other scientific data, between 1970 and 2011, 70 “rich countries” saw their meat consumption increase. Experts detect that this taste for meat food is, above all, linked to social factors such as meetings, exchanges of ideas, the emergence of information and images that are easy to access via the internet and social networks. Thus, if Eastern countries adopt the Internet, meat consumption will increase by 20%.
Lack of physical activity and its pathologies
For the WHO, physical inactivityis the4th causeof overweight in the world(2). You should know that moving your body significantly reduces the risk of hypertension, stroke, coronary heart disease, depression, falling, breast cancer, colon, diabetes and ischemic heart disease. In addition, not being overweight allows you to keep your energy and weight balance in good shape. In addition, modern technologies (again) have reduced physical needs in multiple industries. It is therefore vital to absorb fewer kilocalories if you want to keep an ideal fit.
As forcardiovascular diseases, in 2012, they represented the world’s leading cause of deathwith more than 17 million victims. Countries with low-income populations are directly affected.
The framework of women’s work
Apart from these traditional aspects, American studies highlight a more surprising factor of overweight: the growing percentage of women in the workforce. Those who work have less time to prepare balanced meals and to encourage their children to eat properly.
In addition, night work can also be an aggravating factor in the global obesity epidemic. This is becoming more and more widespread: according to the International Labour Organization, 1/4 of employees in the European Union work at night, which makes it even more difficult to eat meals at a fixed time.
Between 1980 and 2013, the proportion of obese adults increased from 29% to 37%. Now in developing countries (Kuwait, Micronesia, Tonga, Libya, Qatar …) the obesity rate among women exceeds 50%. “Obesity affects the world’s population and it won’t stop if we don’t do something about it”(3)says Professor Barry Popkin. For him, the Western diet replaces those based on vegetables,fresh fruits and starchyfoods which, however, represent a perfect dietary balance. Paradox of our consumer societies?
Stephen Paul is the lead author and founder of My Health Sponsor. Holder of a diploma in health and well-being coaching with more than 200 articles in the field of health, he makes it a point of honor to offer advice based on reliable information, based on scientific research, and verified by health professionals.