Morbid Obesity has increased in Spain over 200% in recent years

These alarming news comes from a study just published in the prestigious Spanish Journal of Cardiology (REC), made from the data of the six National Health Surveys, also concludes that growth in the prevalence of morbid obesity is more faster than a milder obesity (over 200% in morbidly obese compared with 65% obese).

It is called morbid obesity more severe obesity. It is said that a person is considered morbidly obese when their BMI is above 40. When you have reached this level, markedly increases the likelihood of other diseases that come as a result of excess body fat.

"Morbid obesity in Spain has fired more obese because milder disease have exceeded the limit of the morbid," he told Europa Press the SEC chairman, Carlos Macaya, who warns that this situation is "a serious problem public health, "which, with" certainly "will increase" if interventions are not serious. "

We approached the U.S. trend

Currently, the U.S. has a prevalence of morbid obesity between 5% and 6% of the population. "We at the moment is less than 1%, but we tend to achieve these figures in a few years," said the expert.

Martinez noted that society has to realize that eating "unhealthy, increasing added sugars, a sedentary lifestyle and genetic predisposition are the factors that help the rapid proliferation of this disease."

? Indices of obesity in Europe

Spain is the second country in the entire European Union Malta.En exceeded only by concrete, 9% of Spanish schoolchildren are obese and 33% were overweight, compared to figures below 20% in France, Poland, Germany or Holland, as the "International Obesity Task Force" (IOTF). Thus, the countries of southern Europe suffer from higher rates of obesity prevalence in children that the countries of Northern Europe. This is so because, the Mediterranean countries consume more foods rich in fat, sugar and salt.