Posted on 04/26/2017 8:34:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
REUTERS - - More than two-thirds of people living in Mexico, Chile and Ecuador are overweight or obese, costing their economies tens of billions of dollars every year, driving rates of disease and straining health services, according to a new UN report.
While the number of hungry people in Latin America and the Caribbean has halved in the past 25 years, the region is now struggling to combat an obesity epidemic.
Changing diets, including more processed food that are high in salt, sugar and fat, along with more sedentary lifestyles have triggered a rising tide of obesity, experts say.
“The implications for the future of countries are frightening ... undernutrition is declining, but overnutrition is expected to become the largest social and economic burden in the region,” the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Latinos are genetically predisposed to getting diabetes.
Not a huge problem when they stick to a traditional fiber rich Mexican diet with corn, beans, chiles and such being a routine staple.
As they migrate to a high sugar standard American diet they run into big trouble, obesity being one major health problem.
Edema.
Water is not fat, and therefore the article should not have included salt as a factor in obesity.
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