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Exercise and a balanced diet to fight obesity and its effects on economy and health
In the last decades, the relevance of obesity and overweight in developed economies is experiencing an upward trend: it’s about time to roll up our sleeves and tackle both its causes and effects
As the World Health Organization states, the global obesity rate tripled between 1975 and the last years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA), such rate reached 42.4% of the overall Northern American population in 2017-2018, which is to say that more than 4 Americans out of 10 are obese. The WHO noted that obese people were 39% of the global population in 2016