{"id":26383,"date":"2021-05-14T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T07:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elixirr.com\/?p=26383"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:14:42","slug":"the-obesity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elixirr.com\/en-us\/the-obesity-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The obesity crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This March in England and Wales, for the first time since October 2020,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/covid-no-longer-leading-cause-of-death-in-england-and-wales-j2z7f3xcs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deaths from heart disease and dementia<\/a>&nbsp;were higher than deaths from COVID-19. This is a welcome statistic given the events of the past year. However, it highlights the prevalence of an epidemic society has been battling for far longer: obesity, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nia.nih.gov\/news\/obesity-associated-higher-risk-dementia-new-study-finds#:~:text=Obesity%20associated%20with%20a%20higher%20risk%20for%20dementia%2C%20new%20study%20finds,-September%2017%2C%202020&amp;text=A%20recent%20NIA%2Dsupported%20study,increased%20risk%20for%20developing%20dementia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">studies<\/a>&nbsp;suggest is directly correlated to both dementia and heart disease.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID was a public health threat that governments worldwide quickly responded to with strict lockdowns and containment measures that drastically restricted civil liberties and freedoms. Obesity is a significantly deeper-rooted issue: 38.9% of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/3\/ca5162en\/ca5162en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">adults<\/a>&nbsp;globally are overweight, and&nbsp;20.6% of children&nbsp;aged 5-9 globally are overweight. COVID was a disease that threatened to adversely affect particular segments of the population, and governments took action accordingly. Obesity is the same, affecting particular demographics as an issue deeply rooted in structural inequality. Why is the same degree of action not being taken? For example, in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/data\/obesity-and-covid-19.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US<\/a>, Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black adults are the group most affected by obesity, which is directly linked to limited opportunities for economic, physical, and emotional health. Neighborhood design also catalyzes obesity, predominantly affecting poorer and less-developed areas with higher concentrations of residents who are ethnic minority groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>COVID was a major public health threat, so we locked down, watching economies grind to a halt. Obesity is a deeper-embedded health issue that poses an arguably greater risk to society. Why then is the logic that was applied to tackling COVID not being applied to this prevalent disease?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Obesity is also a hugely expensive issue. In the UK,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/health-matters-obesity-and-the-food-environment\/health-matters-obesity-and-the-food-environment--2#:~:text=The%20overall%20cost%20of%20obesity,%C2%A349.9%20billion%20per%20year.\" target=\"_blank\">obesity<\/a>&nbsp;costs wider society roughly \u00a327 billion each year. By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/health-matters-obesity-and-the-food-environment\/health-matters-obesity-and-the-food-environment--2#:~:text=The%20overall%20cost%20of%20obesity,%C2%A349.9%20billion%20per%20year.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2050<\/a>, annual costs relating to overweight and obesity are estimated to rise to \u00a39.7 billion each year, with costs to wider society rising to \u00a349.9 billion each year. Per annum, the UK&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/health-matters-obesity-and-the-food-environment\/health-matters-obesity-and-the-food-environment--2#:~:text=The%20overall%20cost%20of%20obesity,%C2%A349.9%20billion%20per%20year.\" target=\"_blank\">spends<\/a>&nbsp;more on treating obesity and diabetes than it does on the police, fire service and judicial system combined. There\u2019s also the dreadful reality that obesity can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/data\/obesity-and-covid-19.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">triple<\/a>&nbsp;the risk of hospitalisation in COVID patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID was a major public health threat, so we locked down, watching economies grind to a halt. Obesity is a deeper-embedded health issue that poses an arguably greater risk to society. Why then is the logic that was applied to tackling COVID &#8211; namely fighting health threats with drastic measures &#8211; not being applied to this prevalent disease? If governments and health bodies are not prepared to take rigorous action for obesity, but were prepared to do so for COVID, then what was the point of lockdown? Either we remain consistent and take action, or we accept that there is a level of risk involved in public health issues that doesn\u2019t justify strict measures such as lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This March in England and Wales, for the first time since October 2020,&nbsp;deaths from heart disease and dementia&nbsp;were higher than deaths from COVID-19. 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