The fat problem perplexes numerous Englishmen

The fat problem perplexes numerous Englishmen
The special despatch, according to a report which National Audit Office of the United Kingdom announced a few days ago on February 15 of www.xinhuanet.com London, fat Englishmen's quantity is increased progressively year by year. Because of fat, Englishmen the intersection of health care and expenses and the intersection of they and that employer pay money that use up add, compete and up to hundreds of millions of pounds together every year. This report also says, over the past 20 years, the British fat intensity has looked through more than 3 times. In 1980, 8% of the women and 6% of the men were fat, and by 1998, the fat number of people of woman and man has already accounted for 21% and 17% of total population respectively. The fat has caused 30,000 minors' death directly, 2,600 million pounds of hospitalization cost and indirect economic losses Damien that cost because of this (equal to 3,900 million dollars) . The report still points out, in Britain at present, nearly 2/3 of the people have been already overweight or fat in medical science; There is a person's fat that has already in every 5 people reached the dangerous intensity. Take effective measure in the future, the intersection of population of being obese and proportion of Britain probably will reach total 1/4 of population, this proportion even U.S.A. needs not to reach until ten years. Because fat not merely will cause many kinds of diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer of colon and apoplexy, will also bring to national economy and negatively influence indirectly.

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