UN recommends state of emergency for obesity in Mexico

In Mexico there is a worrying epidemic of overweight , the Mexican state must declare itself in emergency situation, recommended the special rapporteur of The United Nations On the Right to Food , Olivier De Schutter , when concluding an official mission of 7 days in our country.

In presenting the preliminary observations of his visit, in which he evaluated the national food system, the expert said that 7 out of 10 Mexicans suffer from obesity , reason why it emphasized the necessity that the government has to realize new strategies to face his big lags in this sector:

"Mexico is in a paradoxical situation: on the one hand, it has problems of undernutrition and overnutrition, which is the result of several factors", among which he mentioned the tendency to lean towards the interests of the most affluent farmers and the commercialization of Foods rich in energy.

According to a study published last September by The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , Mexico surpassed the United States and with it ranked first in world indexes of overweight Y obesity in adults.

The UN official explained that the two biggest challenges for Mexico are to overcome "food poverty" and control the high figures of obesity , while recommending that, for these reasons, the Mexican government must declare a state of emergency.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that of the 1.2 billion people who suffer obesity In the world, 70 million are Mexicans: "The severity of the problem could cost the country about 150 billion pesos for the next 10 years, due to the costs of treating chronic diseases caused by obesity, such as diabetes and diabetes. hypertension, "said Olivier De Schutter.


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