The Global Obesity Crisis

  • Akriti Singh
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  • Akriti Singh

    Student at Amity Law School, Amity University, India

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Abstract

Obesity or overweight is a serious health issue and a major cause that leads to many life-threatening disease. Obesity weakens our psychological conditions and leads to underconfident. Obesity has been rising for last few years at global level. It has been observed from various research and surveys that overweighted people usually have weak immunity against disease, generally fall ill easily than a normal person. From 1990 to 2022, the percentage of children and adolescents aged 5–19 years living with obesity increased four-fold from 2% to 8% globally, while the percentage of adults 18 years of age and older living with obesity more than doubled from 7% to 16%. The main objective of this research is to elaborate the impacts of obesity and how to resolve this global crisis. We need to resolve this crisis as a community only then we can reduce its rate by 2030. The International Conference on Obesity (ICO) was established in 1974 and its main aim to control the obesity at global level and spread awareness at large scale.

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International Journal of Law Management and Humanities, Volume 7, Issue 6, Page 1010 - 1013

DOI: https://doij.org/10.10000/IJLMH.118601

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