I’s today news that the Quarterly Report on economic and social situation of the European Commission gives to Italy the first place for job losses and reduced earnings of families. We are a country on the ropes like a boxer that someone claims to drop permanently to the ground. We are a country in which not only there is less work and earns but at too much people lack the health, because they ruin with junk food or eating excessive amounts of food. This phenomenon has a very high social cost per year, amounting to 8.3 billion, corresponding to 6.7% of public costs that it is lost in health care, mainly for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, but also for dieticians and psychologists (in Use the cost of obesity to the State affects 9% of the total medical spending, 147 billion dollars). Costs that can only get worse: in 2025 it is expected that 43% of adults will be obese. The war for the dissemination of a wellness culture is possible to do it but nobody in Italy talks about. It has no special cost, does not require agreements between the social parts, does not require that the European economic situation changes, it is irrelevant to the value of the spread. I wonder if anyone, from the ministry of health, do anything because this issue is not political battleground that is the main art practiced by the politiciens or because the governement in Rome as in the regions do not understand or they minimize this issue concerning the health of the citizens. It could also be that the idea of improving diet and to promote the diffusion of the physical activity are solutions so trivial that it is believed that every person should be able to find the best solution for him/her-self.
The Italian situation
HOW MANY OBESES
4 MILLIONS OF ADULTS +25% COMPARED TO 1994 |
REGIONS WITH MORE OBESES
MOLISE 12.8% CAMPANIA 11.2% |
GENDER
MALES 9.2% FEMALES 8.8% |
WHERE THEY LIVE IN ITALY
NORTH 7.8% CENTER 7.9% SOUTH 10.8% ISLANDS 9.5% |
AGE
18-24 YEARS 11.6% 45-54 YEARS 12.4% 55-64 YEARS 14.4% 65-74 YEARS 14.2% |
CHILDREN OBESES OR OVERWEIGHT
ITALY 36% SPAIN 27& SWITZERLAND 24% ENGLAND 20% FRANCE 19% GERMANY 14% |
Very descriptive post, I liked that bit. Will there be a part 2?
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