People these days are becoming sick because of overeating and junk foods and bad food additives, and healthy people are those who eat small amounts. Most people are dying because of diseases linked to food consumption and their number is more than those who are dying of hunger.
yes, overeating is a major cause for heart diseases, cancers and many others and current studies show that over-eating is three times more responsible for death than malnutrition.
Overeating belongs to the Western World countries.
Malnutrition belongs to the Third World countries.
Even in third world countries there is major problem of obesity, thus we are facing double burden obesity and malnutrition at the same time.
Cardiovascular diseases and cancer are more than 70% of all deaths in Poland.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates there will be about 20 million CVD deaths in 2015, accounting for 30 percent of all deaths worldwide
Cancer is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with approximately 14 million new cases in 2012.
The number of new cases is expected to rise by about 70% over the next 2 decades.
Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally, and was responsible for 8.8 million deaths in 2015. Globally, nearly 1 in 6 deaths is due to cancer.
Approximately 70% of deaths from cancer occur in low- and middle-income countries.
Around one third of deaths from cancer are due to the 5 leading behavioral and dietary risks: high body mass index, low fruit and vegetable intake, lack of physical activity, tobacco use, and alcohol use.
Tobacco use is the most important risk factor for cancer and is responsible for approximately 22% of cancer deaths (WHO).
It is not so much the quantity that people eat, as the quality. Avoiding trans fats, fried unsaturated fats, sugars including the natural sugar in milk, and additives would make a great difference to the burden of non-communicable disease, in rich and poor countries.
People do not usually die directly from hunger. They die because they have no deposits of fat left, and so their immune systems cannot mount a defence against infection.
The Pacific Islands have some of the highest prevelance of Obesity and related to it NCDs. Undernutrition is not much a problem, but obviously malnotrition. Pacific Island countries are all developing countries, some of them among the least developed countries. The idea that hunger in the third world and obesity (overeating / overweight) in first world is surely not correct and the reality is much, much more complex.
Eating fat stimulates cholecystokinin production, switching off appetite. Eating starch raises glucose levels, stimulating leptin, and switching off appetite. Eating fructose in sugar, and galactose in milk, does not trigger satiety. So these sugars encourage overeating, and galactose encourages coronary heart disease, while fructose encourages cancer, senility and diabetes. However, don't change from sugar to artificial sweeteners.
Eat vegetables rather than fruit. Eat hard cheese and butter rather than milk. Eat starch rather than sugar. Drink herb teas rather than sugary squashes and sodas.
Many less developed countries are hot, and people are thirsty. Water supplies may not be clean. So it important to have safe drinks that are not sugary.
Not only in less developed countries it is urgent to drink much, but the hint that water is often not suitable for consumption is crucial. It is equally correct that soft drinks contain far too much sugar and are a major cause for many diseases.
Over heating is not much problem is Sub-Saharan countries but mostly countries in this area which are all developing are facing double burden of malnutrition. That is obesity in cities and towns and under-nutrition in rural areas.
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