Up to 80% of Irish men over the age of 25 could be obese by the year 2050, according to a new report published in the Lancet Journal.
Ireland is the sixth highest country on this list, with 75% of Irish women in the same age bracket also expected to be overweight or obese in 2050., while a further 23% are obese.
“We’ve engineered physical activity out of our adult life and we have a food environment that’s unrecognisable from 40 years ago,” he said. “But our levels are way too high even as they are, and we already have a situation where over 60% of our adults over the age of 50 have overweight or obesity.”“It’s a complex interaction between genes and environment like other chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease,” he said.According to Dr O’Shea, we need to move past the idea that obesity is a choice in order to reduce stigma and treat it properly.
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