Obesity

Leading home appliances brand Beko has set out on a mission to raise awareness of childhood obesity in partnership with longstanding partner, FC Barcelona. 

Independent - Junk food advertising will be banned from London's tube and bus network, under plans put forward by the city's mayor that steal a march on Theresa May.

Sadiq Khan said the move was necessary to curb the "ticking timebomb" of child obesity, which has left almost 40 per cent of 10 and 11-year-olds in the capital overweight or obese.

Some 20.5 percent of men and 41 percent of women in Turkey are obese, according to the Health Ministry's National Nutrition and Health Survey. 

On the market there are nutritional supplements for weight loss with banned substances, warn the Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Union. Most often they are available online.

A study released Feb. 26 revealed that obesity is worsening for young children in the United States.

Greek researcher Dr. Christos Mantzoros was presented with the prestigious Obesity Society’s TOPS Award on November 1. The TOPS Research Achievement Award recognizes one individual every year for singular achievement or contribution to research in the field of obesity.

The obesity rate for second graders (aged around 7-8) in Turkey rose to 10 percent in 2017, up from 6.5 percent in 2009, Health Minister Ahmet Demircan said on Nov. 14, World Diabetes Day. 

The most recent scientific data on global obesity rates have proved disappointing, as the World Obesity Federation has warned that if current trends continue, 2.7 billion adults will be overweight or obese by 2025. Moreover, 268 million children of school age (5-18) will be overweight, with an additional 91 million considered obese.

Nearly 124 million children in the world suffer from severe obesity, the World Health Organization warned in a report quoted by Mediapool.

Greece has the highest proportion of obese boys in Europe (16.7% of the population), while Malta has the most obese girls (11.3%), according to a new international study published in the medical journal “The Lancet” , on occasion of World Obesity Day on 11 October.
Moldova has the smallest obesity rates in Europe (3.2% of the population) and 5% in boys .