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Epidemic of Obesity Expands Its Spread to Developing Countries
M. J. Friedrich
JAMA. 2002;287:1382-1386.
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I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.—Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part One, III:3
Boston—No longer confined to well-fed, high-income countries, the epidemic of obesity is spreading rapidly among developing nations. From the streets of China to the Siberian tundra, people are eating diets higher in fat while becoming more sedentary—a sure-fire recipe for increasing the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and other diseases related to obesity. Countries that can ill afford to deal with these illnesses are faced with the burden of understanding and controlling this life-threatening trend.
Urbanization, rapid shifts in technology, and increasing availability of processed foods are altering the way people in many developing countries are living, and these changes are fueling the obesity epidemic, said Barry Popkin, PhD, a professor of nutrition at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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