Obesity Epidemic Threatens Sub-Saharan Africa

Recently, The Lancet published research showing how sub-Saharan Africa faces a rising obesity threat with predicted body weight problems increasing by 254.8% from 2025 to 2050. Researchers started from 204 countries to discover how health was changing worldwide and found Nigeria had a specific problem set to affect 141 million adults.

New data about obesity suggests the problem exists worldwide at a large scale. During 2021 research shows that one billion adult males and 1.11 billion adult females dealt with overweight and obesity problems. The top eight countries for obesity cases across the planet are China, India, and the United States along with four other nations which collectively represent 50% of global patients. The obesity problem will hit two-thirds of adults worldwide by 2050 yet those increases will impact South Asia and East Asia most through central and eastern sub-Saharan Africa.

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Research teams stress the necessity of specific obesity prevention measures since just 40% of nations had functioning obesity policies in 2021 and poor nations covered less than 10% of their population. Researchers have issued an important alarm by showing that obesity stands out as a major health threat with high preventability that will create many premature diseases and deaths worldwide.