Quintana Roo is a state with a health problem
Quintana Roo is a state with a health problem that obesity specialists have described as brave, since they assure that Quintana Rooyou have the same obesity problems as the border states where food is directly influenced by USAwhich makes the state the first place in the southeastern part of the country.
“In the southeast of the Republic, the first place in excess weight is Quintana Roo, second place is Yucatan, we are talking about 35 percent of overweight and obesity in the elderly and in children we are talking about up to 38 percent, we are seeing that Quintana Roo has a very particular condition because the influence of tourism is very high,” he said. Raul Morin Zaragozaspecialist in obesity from the Faculty of Medicine, UNAM
In Mexico the situation in general is alarming because at least the 72 percent of the population has an unhealthy weight, that is, it is above the weight that guarantees health and a better quality of life.
According to the doctor, obesity is a disease that is not seen or treated as a disease, which causes an erroneous perception of reality regarding weight and health. The alarming thing is that in a projection of 2060, 80 percent of the Mexican population will be outside of the healthy weight.
Obesity has been treated in Mexico as a situation related to aesthetics and not to health, so it is recommended to treat this problem on several sides and with an active and reactive society before it. issue.
Quintana Roo is a state with a health problem
“The problem with children is already depressing because if we hope that these generations will grow up with less obesity than we have now, I tell you that the obesity rate is 35 percent of children in Mexico”.
‘If we add the two, obesity and overweight, we reach 72 percent in the Mexican Republic, but even more serious is that the projection for 2060 where Mexico goes from 72 to 80 percent and from the sixth place that we now occupy, we will occupy the 25th place, that is, other countries that have a serious problem like us in America will surpass us”, he pointed out.
Raul Morín Zaragoza, obesity specialist at the Faculty of Medicine, UNAM
Around the world the problem becomes another “pandemic” and according to the specialist there are problems in countries like Qatar with 80 percent, Africa begins with problems in urban areas and Haiti It has two poles, malnutrition and obesity.
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