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La pandemia global de obesidad: moldeada por factores globales y entornos locales
Boyd A Swinburn1, Gary Sacks, Kevin D Hall
1WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. boyd.swinburn@deakin.edu.au
Lancet (London, England)
|August 30, 2011
Resumen
Los sistemas alimentarios mundiales promueven el consumo excesivo pasivo, impulsando la epidemia de obesidad en todo el mundo. Se necesita con urgencia una acción política para reducir los factores del lado de la oferta de esta crisis de salud pública.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Salud Pública La salud pública.
- Epidemiología La epidemiología.
- Salud global La salud global.
Sus antecedentes:
- El aumento de la producción de alimentos procesados, asequibles y comercializados en el sistema alimentario mundial impulsa la obesidad generalizada.
- La prevalencia de la obesidad varía debido a las interacciones entre los impulsores del sistema alimentario global y los factores ambientales locales.
- Las variaciones individuales en el tamaño corporal se explican por factores ambientales y genéticos, sin embargo, la epidemia muestra patrones de subpoblación predecibles.
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