Health Promotion International, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1-4,
March 2003
© Oxford University Press 2003
EDITORIAL |
Promoting healthy weight—the new environmental frontier
Editor in Chief
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One of the world’s greatest tragedies is that many parts of the planet suffer from food shortages and starvation arising largely from drought, floods, corruption and conflict, yet, at the same time, hundreds of millions of people in both developed and developing countries are overweight and obese due to ‘over-nourishment’ and ‘under-activity’. Indeed the problem of excessive weight is now so common that it is replacing more traditional problems, such as under-nutrition and infectious diseases, as the most significant causes of ill-health (WHO, 2000
). This growing epidemic has been observed over the last 20 years as huge increases in Body Mass Index or BMI (defined as weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared).
Compelling evidence regarding the rate of change in obesity prevalence comes from a number of countries including North America, the UK and Australia. In the US in 2000, self-reported data (which tends to underestimate
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