Mexico number 1 in adult obesity

• May 8, 2024

According to the study carried out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), entitled: "Obesity and the economy of prevention", in Mexico 30% of adults suffer obesity and 69.5% have overweight .

In this sense, the OECD indicates that the United States went to the second place in the list, when before it had occupied the first, data of 2008 refer that 27.5% of the US citizens are obese and 68% suffer overweight .

With this, Mexico is going to lead obesity , since it is number one in adults and in childhood obesity , while the countries least affected by the disease are Japan, Korea and Switzerland.

In the study of "Obesity and the economy of prevention ", Invite governments to take measures to fight against this problem, since the rate doubled or tripled in many countries since 1980, when at least one in 10 people suffered obesity in those nations.

Modifying life habits, such as consuming healthy foods, doing some physical or sports activity on a regular basis, help to reduce the levels of obesity Y overweight in Mexico. According to the OECD, a person has obesity when his Body Mass Index (IMC) is equal to or greater than 30.