Obesity in Europe, an alarming report by the WHO

Nearly two-thirds of adults and one in three children in WHO's European member countries are overweight or obese, and these rates are increasing, the WHO warns in its new Obesity Report 2022. As a result, "none of the 53 Member States in the region is currently on track to meet the WHO global NCD target of halting the rise in obesity by 2025. Without recalling the health consequences in terms of morbi-mortality (4th rank of mortality risk factors after hypertension and smoking), particularly cardiovascular and metabolic, oncological (no less than 13 neoplasia related to obesity). Obesity could overtake smoking as the main risk factor for preventable cancer in the coming decades and could be directly responsible for at least 200,000 new cases of cancer per year in the region. Overweight and obesity are also the leading risk factor for disability, accounting for 7% of total years lived with disability in Europe.