11 de Julho, 2009
Estatísticas da obesidade em Portugal, ou como não é boa ideia almoçar 2 vezes ou jantar 4 vezes no mesmo dia
Autor: O Primitivo. Categoria: Dieta
Vídeo: Reportagem SIC Obesidade Mórbida.
O artigo "Prevalence of obesity in Portugal", publicado no Obesity Reviews em 2006, apresenta-nos um panorama estatístico da obesidade em Portugal. Na prática, no ano de 2005, cerca de 38.6% da população tinha excesso de peso, e 13.8% era obesa. Nada que espante, e sempre com tendência para piorar. Hoje os números devem ser ainda mais alarmantes. Pode ler o artigo integral clicando aqui.
Prevalence of Obesity in Portugal (pdf)
Summary:
Obesity is a serious health problem in developed countries. Knowledge of reliableand nationwide representative data is a must for any public health action. Thedimension of this problem in Portugal was first assessed in 1995–1998. A similarpopulational survey using objective anthropometric measures is now being con-ducted (field work started in January 2003). A total of 6411 subjects aged 18–64 years old have already been measured and their respective body mass indexes(BMIs) calculated. Results from 2003 to 2005 show 38.6% is overweight and13.8% has obesity. The total of overweight and obesity is 52.4%. In 1995–1998 survey, overweight was 35.2% and obesity was 14.4%. The total was 49.6%. These results suggest an increase of the overweight/obesity (altogether) prevalencein the last 10 years. Actual results show that more than half of the adult samplehas excessive weight and 2.4% of the sample has low BMI. Finally, 45.6% of thesample suffers increased health risks because of high waist circumference ( ≥ 80 cmfor women; ≥ 94 cm for men). These results highlight the fact that, althoughobesity was identified as a public health problem one decade ago, action to reduceit does not seem to have been very effective to date.
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