A group of renowned doctors presented this Wednesday a bill in the senatewhich proposes the prevention, treatment and control of obesity. It was promoted by professionals Jorge Harraca, Monica Katz and Alberto Cormillot.
This initiative was channeled in the upper house by the missionary senators Carlos Arce and Sonia Rojas Decutof the Renewal Front of Social Concord.
The professionals presented in the Senate
At the time of presenting the project, Harraca maintained that it addresses a “growing epidemic through prevention, treatment and control,” warning that obesity “is a multiplying disease”.
Then it was Katz’s turn, who referred to the importance of “declare obesity as a chronic, inflammatory, complex and progressive disease”; and highlighted the need for the creation of a Argentine Obesity Observatory. And he added: “It would be an ad honorem council of advisors”
Finally, Cormillot pointed out that “of the ten elements that have to do with to be able to live longer and live betterthere are four that have to do with the topic”.
To conclude, the commission went on to sign a bill authored by the senator Ines Pilatti Vergara (National and Popular Front), which incorporates a section to a humanized birth initiative.
The worrying obesity numbers
According to the World Obesity Federationit is expected that in the 2035 is more than 4 billion people with obesity and overweight in the worldwhich will be equivalent to more than 50% of the global population. These statistics highlight the need for patients with this condition to receive proper medical care to avoid serious complications and improve your quality of lifeand to preserve the sustainability of the health system.
According to the World Obesity Federationit is expected that in the 2035 is more than 4 billion people with obesity and overweight in the worldwhich will be equivalent to more than 50% of the global population. These statistics highlight the need for patients with this condition to receive proper medical care to avoid serious complications and improve your quality of lifeand to preserve the sustainability of the health system.
For him Harracapresident of the Argentine Society of Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Diseases (SACO)is urgent paradigm shift in the way society and the medical community address obesity.
“It is necessary to understand that obesity is not simply reduced to a lack of will or discipline; it is a systemic diseasethat is, it affects the entire organism, including the neurological mechanisms related to satiety and the metabolism. In many cases, patients develop morbid obesity due to a combination of genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors.
Today the disease reached the range of pandemicdue to the high rates that exist throughout the world. In Argentinathe obesity and the overweight in adults experienced a significant increase in recent years. According to the Fourth National Risk Factor Surveysix out of ten Argentines are affected by overweight; 36.2% present overweight and 25.4% obesity. Furthermore, the projections of the World Atlas of Obesity indicate that for the year 2035near the 43% of adults will be obese.
Source: Ambito
