According to a new study unveiled this week by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the UK is facing into an obesity epidemic over the next 15 years.
WHO has predicted that by 2030, two out of three women and three out of four men in the UK will be overweight. These statistics translate to show that 33% of women will be clinically obese by 2030, with the corresponding figure for men hitting 26%.
The UK is not the only country to be issued with a warning by WHO, with our neighbours in Ireland also being dealt alarming news from the study. WHO predicts that by 2030, almost all adults in Ireland will be overweight.
Releasing their results this week, representatives for WHO have predicted a very bleak outlook for our health in 15 years’ time; namely, an obesity crisis of “enormous proportions” in Europe.
Commenting on the findings, Dr Laura Webber of the UK Health Forum, who co-led the research, said: “Policies to reverse this trend are urgently needed. Although there is no ‘silver bullet’ for tackling the epidemic, governments must do more to restrict unhealthy food marketing and make healthy food more affordable.”
