Study: Middle East Expected to Have Most Obese Youth by 2050 – IOTW Report

Study: Middle East Expected to Have Most Obese Youth by 2050

Great! Let them help out their neighbors.

Breitbart: A recent study in the medical journal The Lancet found a dramatic rise in obesity and overweight status, particularly among young people, in the Middle East, The National reported on Monday, highlighting the contrasts in a region also suffering significant malnutrition.

While countries such as Yemen have been on the brink of famine for the better part of a decade, the wealthier populations in oil-rich Gulf states have seen a dramatic increase in disposable income and the availability of unhealthy food, particularly imported fast foods in luxury destinations such as Dubai and Kuwait. Countries that a generation ago struggled with high rates of poverty have not yet adapted their government and education policies to address the prevalence of unhealthy food or the lack of an exercise culture, the study indicated.

The study focused on overweight and obese people around the world, finding that the developing world – not just the Middle East, but locations such as Latin America – is facing rising obesity rates as it generates more wealth.

The National, based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), reported that the study found that “scientists expect the Middle East will overtake North America as the world’s most out-of-shape region if ‘startling’ trends in weight gain over the last 30 years continue.”

The newspaper spoke to one of the collaborators on the study, Susan Sawyer, who warned, “the Middle East and North Africa, together with Latin America and the Caribbean, are the two regions in the world where over the last 30 years we’ve seen the most rapid increases.” MORE

5 Comments on Study: Middle East Expected to Have Most Obese Youth by 2050

  1. I am unlikely to be here by then, and dont care now, so I CERTAINLY wont care THEN.

    Butterball Jihadis gasping as they try to run wearing a bomb vest is a pretty funny image, tho.

    Good luck with that.

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