World Obesity Atlas 2022 - March 2022

Some food and beverage World Obesity Atlas 2022 17 Section 2: Projections of obesity prevalence in 2030 World Obesity Atlas 2022 18 Section 2: Projections of obesity prevalence in 2030 No country is on track to meet the WHO’s 2025 The steady rise of severe obesity is of concern targets on obesity (as defined by BMI), and obesity globally, as it is at this point that people with obesity rates are s. [...] A review23 of clinical services for treating obesity in In the survey of 68 countries, the respondents 68 low-, middle-, and high-income countries found reported a lack of political prioritisation for obesity that there is a lack of adequate services in the and the lack of training for healthcare professionals majority of countries, especially in lower-income as additional barriers to treatment. [...] • Incorporate the rights of children with obesity These included: the need to address the double- within human rights legislation, healthcare and and triple-burden of malnutrition; to overcome education systems, and ensure that legislative policy inertia and a siloed approach to health tools are used effectively to eliminate interventions focused on the individual; to increase the pervasive and un. [...] A World Obesity need it, build a case for strong obesity policy, foster survey (2021)41 of 274 professionals in 68 countries investments in obesity research, and demonstrate identified the lack of official recognition of obesity as the need to prioritise and improve the education of a disease as one of the top 10 barriers to treatment, health professionals to prevent and manage obesity. [...] mortality rates linked to COVID-19.45 Implemented as Article 20 Bis to the Law of the Rights of An important challenge identified by academic Children and Adolescents in the State of Oaxaca, groups in Mexico for the scaling-up of this initiative the law aims to eliminate malnutrition in children is the lack of a formal evaluation to study the and adolescents, and prohibits the following: impact of.