Obesity
- A medical Journal is warning the world that it is getting fatter.
- The single best way for determining a person's overall health and risk of disease is by measuring a person's waist-line.
- Overweight and obese people have a higher risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes.
- If this trend continues, health care systems around the world will fail.
- The journal blames this new trend on our modern day food supply.
- Cheap and delicious food is available in many places around the world.
- The journal calls on nations everywhere to take preventive action.
- One suggestion is to ban junk-food advertising.
- Another suggestion is to tax unhealthy foods.
- Young people need to be educated about the dangers of obesity.