Warning about the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle,an expert said that diseases like Obesity and Diabetes have become a serious health concern across age groups.
"About four-five crore Indians suffer from obesity and Diabetes followed by USA and Russia," Director of Vuk Vrhovac, University Clinic for Diabetes, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Professor Zeljko Metelko said while delivering a lecture on 'Diabetes - B Cell Significance and Implications' here last night.
Sedentary lifestyles and genetic influences have turned health profiles so worse that obesity and diabetes have become serious problems of not just the old but even the youth and adolescents, the professor said after receiving the Yalamachuili Diabetes Foundations's 'Gold Medal Oration Award'.
Unlike certain diseases, obesity and diabetes were not limited only to developing countries and coordinated efforts were required at a global level to tackle the situation, he said adding very little had been done in the past twenty years.
Presenting a grim picture of the days to come, Metelko said that until there was a thrust on awareness and preventive measures with a committed political will the entire world would be at the brink of a catastrophe in the next twenty years. |
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