发展中国家应警惕肥胖的蔓延

Developing countries should act now to head off their own "obesity epidemic", says a global policy group.

一个全球决策组织称，发展中国家应立即采取行动阻止“肥胖流行病”的蔓延。

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says obesity levels are rising fast.

In a report in the Lancet medical journal,哥哥的心愿, it says low-income countries cannot cope with the health consequences of wide scale obesity.

Rates in Brazil and South Africa already outstrip（超过） the OECD average.

Increasing obesity in industrialised countries such as the UK and US has brought with it rises in heart disease,感受美丽独特的苏格兰(二), cancer and diabetes（糖尿病） .

However,魔域私服, increasing prosperity in some developing countries has led to a rise in "Western" lifestyles.

Now the OECD warns that they are catching up fast in terms of obesity rates.

Across all the countries represented in the OECD, 50% of adults are overweight or obese.

Childhood obesity

Rates in the Russian Federation are only just below this, and while fewer than 20% of Indians are classed this way,传奇私服, and fewer than 30% of Chinese people, the body says things are worsening fast.

The report recommends that these countries act now to slow the increase,传奇私服, with media campaigns promoting healthier lifestyles, taxes and subsidies（补贴，津贴） to improve diets,传奇私服, tighter government regulation of food labelling and restrictions on food advertising.

Its authors calculate that doing this would add one million years of "life in good health" to India's population, and four million to China over the next 20 years.

The cost would be considerable but the OECD insists that the strategy would pay for itself in terms of reduced health care costs, becoming cost-effective at worst within 15 years.

Michele Cecchini, one of the report's authors,六合彩, said: "A multiple intervention strategy would achieve substantially larger health gains than individual programmes, with better cost-effectiveness."

She suggested that specific action be taken to target childhood obesity.