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In Viet Nam, there are more than 25% of the adult are overweight in 2014. In society, being overweight is tending to be more and more and more popular. It is becoming one of the biggest challenges in Vietnam as well as in the whole world.

The graph below shows that in 2013, Vietnam had under 15% of people are being overweight, and it is the second country that had lowest percent of overweight people in the Asian country. However, if Vietnamese don't have any solutions, the figures will be the huge number.

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Eat too much fat, sweets and other unhealthy food. For example, Vietnam has a large number of fast food stores. Because of convenience and taste of junk food, people want to eat them more.

Not do exercise regularly. Lacking of time is biggest reason why people don't want to do workout. In addition, gyms require people pay a huge amount of money in it.

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increase consumption of fruit and vegetables.

engage in regular physical activity (60 minutes a day for children and 150 minutes spread through the week for adults).

limit energy intake from total fats and sugars;

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A person's body mass index (BMI) is calculated by dividing their weight in kilograms by the square of their height in meters.

·         Underweight: below 18.5

·         Normal: 18.5 to 24.9

·         Overweight: 25 to 29.9

·         Obese: greater than 30

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Health risks of being overweight or obese.

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Health risks of being overweight or obese.

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Health Risks of Being Overweight or Obese

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What are some health problems caused by being overweight? Dr. Bob explains several conditions that are linked to obesity. For more health information visit http://www.drbobshow.com/ and our DrBobShow1 YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/DrBobShow1.

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The World Is Getting Fatter and No One Knows How to Stop It

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The World Is Getting Fatter and No One Knows How to Stop It

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Obesity Increased In Every Country
In 2014, there were 114 countries where more than half the adult population was considered overweight, including much of the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East, according to World Health Organization data. In small Pacific Islandnations and Persian Gulf states, more than two-thirds of the population is considered overweight or obese, a higher prevalence than in the United States.

So what’s causing obesity?
Some common trends: Rising incomes, global trade, changing food supplies, and declines in physical activity all contribute.

What can be done about obesity?
...lower tariffs on food products like meat, dairy, and sugar, potentially increasing the availability of cheap food.

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By John Tozzi and Jeremy Scott Diamond

Global obesity is on the rise

Humanity is putting on weight. Across the globe, in wealthy countries and developing nations, among children and adults, an increasing number of people are overweight or obese. Today, nearly 40 percent of the world's adults fall into one of those categories, according to new estimates by a global network of researchers called the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration.

Economic forces are conspiring to cause the great global weight gain. Countries grow wealthier and increase consumption. People move from rural areas to cities, where they have ready access to inexpensive, processed foods. Machines do work that humans once did, decreasing the amount of energy people use. And global trade means the reach of junk food has never been greater. Up against these trends, no country has figured out how to reverse the rise of obesity.

In 2014, there were 114 countries where more than half the adult population was considered overweight, including much of the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East, according to World Health Organization data. In small Pacific Island nations and Persian Gulf states, more than two-thirds of the population is considered overweight or obese, a higher prevalence than in the United States.

Obesity Increased In Every Country

Source: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration
Note: Countries are grouped according to WHO regions

Researchers estimate that excess weight caused 3.4 million deaths worldwide in 2010. Being overweight or obese is a risk factor for chronic conditions like cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Those are rising worldwide, too. There were an estimated 422 million adults with diabetes in 2014, a rate of 8.5 percent, compared to 4.7 percent in 1980, according to new estimates published by the World Health Organization April 6.

Diabetes is rising fastest in low- and middle-income countries. It's most common in the region that includes the Middle East and North Africa, where levels of physical inactivity are high.

The number of people who are overweight or obese is going up pretty much everywhere. The world has made progress against health threats from smoking and malnutrition to malaria and waterborne illnesses. No country has yet reversed the obesity epidemic. "Not only is obesity increasing, but no national success stories have been reported in the past 33 years," researchers in the Lancet wrote in a 2014 report funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

A United Nations plan published in 2013 calls for halting the rise in diabetes and obesity by 2025. Though the pace of increase has slowed in some places, Lancet researchers recently called the chances of the world meeting that target "virtually zero."

So what's causing obesity?

The causes of the worldwide weight gain are complicated, and the story is different from country to country. There are some common trends: Rising incomes, global trade, changing food supplies, and declines in physical activity all contribute.

The world has a lot more food than it once did. For most of history, humans struggled to get enough to eat. Now, in many countries, the food supply is more than sufficient to provide the energy people need. It's difficult to measure how much people actually eat, but estimates of the calories available for consumption show they've steadily climbed over the past half century.

Watch the Global Food Supply Increase

Estimated calories available per capita, per day

Countries by region:

Africa

Americas

Eastern Mediterranean

Europe

Southeast Asia

Western Pacific

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

That transformation has unquestionable benefits, with millions of people avoiding starvation and malnutrition. But the increase in obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases indicates that too much food -and less healthful food, especially- can have harmful effects on a population as well.

How we use the energy we get from food has also shifted. Humans were hunter-gatherers until the beginning of agriculture more than 10,000 years ago. Even in wealthy countries, most people are only a few generations removed from ancestors who worked in the fields.

Today, the majority of humanity lives in cities. Work, play, and transit involve less physical activity than they did in an era before computers, televisions, and cars. Globally, almost one-third of adults don't get the recommended level of physical activity, according to research published in 2012.

There may be other factors that we don't fully understand, such as genetics, changes to humans' gut bacteria, or chemicals in the environment that influence our metabolism.

What can be done about obesity?

Increased food availability, growing global wealth, and urbanization are likely to continue. In the United States, obesity plateaued in the first decade of the 21st century, and among the youngest children it may be decreasing. To turn the trend around, Mexico began taxing sugary beverages in 2014, with early indicators showing soda sales declining.

With obesity trends intertwined with economic forces, some advocates say that health considerations need to be written into trade and economic policies, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The trade deal, currently being considered by 12 nations, including Japan, Australia, Mexico, Canada, and the United States, would lower tariffs on food products like meat, dairy, and sugar, potentially increasing the availability of cheap food.

Global Sales of Processed Food

Baked Goods

Beverages

Processed Meat and Seafood

Snacks

Frozen Desserts

Processed Fruit and Vegetables

Source: Euromonitor
Note: Prices are adjusted for inflation

The trade agreement could also empower corporations to challenge governments' attempts to fight obesity through food labeling laws or subsidies for more nutritious goods.

The course of the obesity epidemic won't rest on the TPP alone. But it might depend on how well countries can balance the health of their people with the global forces shaping their economies.

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