Obesity Deaths Three Times of Malnutrition Deaths

Dec. 17, 2012 - PRLog -- New study results say that obesity is causing three times death in compare of malnutrition. It has been claimed in landmark study that more than three million lives a year worldwide. Sub- Sahara Africa is an exception of this. Apart from this, it has been found in Global Burden of Disease study that eating too much may cause serious risk to health of individuals in compare of poorly eating populations. The reports have been published in The Lancet in its second edition.

Across the world, a significant success has been noted in tackling malnutrition in which deaths have decreased by two-third since 1990 and by 2010 it comes below one million. In countries from Colombia to Kazakhstan, the prosperity led to expanding waistline as people eat more and perform less exercise in their regular life. One of the lead authors of report and Imperial College London, global environment health’s chair Dr. Majid Ezzati has said that too much food and unhealthy food even in developing countries is making people sick.

Overall global life expectancy at birth has rose by 5 years from 1990 to 2010. Life expectancy rate for an average boy in 2010 is calculated as 67.5 and that of a girl is 73.3. Most of the years of people life spend with poor health situation. Most of the diseases increase due to obesity. Some major health problems that occur due to obesity are cancer, heart disease and type II diabetes.

Institutes of health Metrics and Evaluation director at the University of Washington in U.S, Dr. Christopher Murray, and another lead author of report has stated that very few people are find to walk around perfect health and other are facing health conditions. An individual death can be caused due to number of related reasons like high blood pressure; smoking and overweight may cause death from stroke.

Albert Johnson is an expert health insurance consultant. He has above five years of experience in article writing on health topics. This article is based upon private health insurance and support. Get more information through his informative posts on http://www.privatehealthinsurance247.co.uk/.