Covid-19 has quickly established itself as one of the main causes of death in the world, but “the first remains non-communicable diseases”: pathologies such as “ischemic heart disease and stroke, tumors, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Alzheimer’s and other dementias, diabetes. They were the main causes of death before the pandemic, responsible for 74% of the total deaths in 2019”, and “even during the pandemic they continued to represent 78% of non-Covid-related deaths “. The World Health Organization underlines this in the World Health Statistics 2024 Report.
In the report, the Geneva agency raises the alarm about the increase in obesity and malnutrition. “The world – he explains – is facing the enormous and complex problem of malnutrition”: it has two opposite faces and weighs like “a double load”, because within the malnutrition chapter, “undernutrition coexists with overweight and obesity. In 2022, more than one billion people aged 5 years and older were living with obesity, while more than half a billion were underweight. Childhood malnutrition also affects, with 148 million children under 5 experiencing arrest growth (too short for their age), 45 million affected by wasting (too thin for their height) and 37 million overweight”.
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