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"In a recent report by the UN is startling figures: the epidemic of obesity everywhere decreases productivity and health insurance costs rise to $3.5 trillion a year, accounting for 5% of global GDP.
In the US currently, 31.8% of the adult population suffers from a common ailment caused by improper nutrition. According to statistics from the Center for control and prevention of diseases, in 1995 the figure was two times lower.
Meanwhile, according to the UN, a large part of the global community is catching up with America's population by the number of consumption of junk food. In Mexico, the number of obese people, even surpassing the United States, accounting for 32.8 per cent.
Experts explain that after the adoption of the North American free trade agreement (NAFTA), Mexico has become an attractive market for cheap American fast food and carbonated drinks.
According to the Department of agriculture of the USA, thanks to the trade agreement only for the 1996-2002 exports to Mexico of corn syrup with high fructose content increased by 1200%. Mexican officials, concerned about the health of the nation, tried to impose a tax on such drinks, but under pressure from the American side, this measure was rejected by the world trade organization.
Now in Mexico, according to the National statistics Agency, maintained the highest consumption of soda drinks is up to 200 liters per capita per year.
Another country where obesity is becoming a national problem, has become Qatar — oil-rich Arab country with a population of 250 thousand people.
In a report published on policymic.com said that traditionally, people in the Gulf region, led an active lifestyle. Now the place was the office, camels had replaced the cars, and traditional food replaced with fast food. Even household chores and upbringing of children lay on maids and nannies. As a result, the diagnosis of "obesity" in Qatar suffer 40% of school-age children and 40% adults.
Last month, experts shared their opinions on the issue at a conference in Sydney. Many believe that the reason the free market and out from under state control of the food giants.
As told in an interview to Indo-Asian News Service Professor Bruce Neil, of the Institute for global health in Sydney, humanity is freed from the previous infectious epidemics, but transnational food corporations has led to widespread growth of a new, not less dangerous disease.
One of the authors of Foreign Policy by John Norris mentioned in his publication critical of the canadian University of Guelph about the experience conducted on rodents. The experiment showed that corn syrup with high fructose, consumed in large quantities, leads to the same changes in behaviour as cocaine.
Meanwhile, this substance is the basis for many carbonated beverages produced by American companies and actively sold for export.
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo control 40% of the global soft drinks market, total volume of which is $532 billion."
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