In fact, in France, for example, the number of obese adults has doubled in fifteen years, that of overweight children has increased fivefold and youth under 15 years of age with severe obesity has increased tenfold, according to Le Monde Diplomatique…

The numbers suggest to think about the situation became increasingly critical one billion people are overweight, including 300 million obese by 2004, compared to 842 million undernourished people. This increase in overweight people paralleled those of the turnover of these companies.

In addition, people spend less calories, the western consumer, for example, spends less than 1800 calories per day on average (5000 cons for nomadic hunters of prehistory and 3000 for the farmer of the nineteenth century).

Obesity is thus not seen as a disease, but as a reaction to an unhealthy environment advocating unhealthy eating habits, with the support of fast food companies who use spirits consuming considerable time daily advertising around world.

However, we must not delude ourselves, obesity affects mainly the poorest. According to a study released by the Ministry of Social Affairs in France, obesity is ten times more common in children whose father is a laborer (7.4%) than among those whose father is a senior (0.7). This obviously does not mean that children from wealthier classes do not grow, if we look not just obesity but overweight, the rate is 22.4% among children whose father is a laborer and 10, 8% among those whose father is a manager.


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