i. Answer the following questions in your blog –
1. How many countries did the study include?
199 countries and territories did the study include
2. What did the study find?
The study found that obesity has almost doubled since 1980.
3. Obesity, high blood pressure, and cholesterol are now ___ worldwide problems___.
4. What was the percentage of women that were obese in 2008.
By two thousand eight, the rate of obesity among women was almost fourteen percent.
5. How is obesity measured?
Obesity is commonly measured by body mass index, or BMI
6. What is BMI?
A person with a BMI of ___25____to ___29____is considered overweight.
8. The World Health Organization defines obesity as a body mass index of ___30___or more.
9. Which nations have the highest BMI in the world? Which country has the single highest average?
Pacific island nations have an average BMI of around 35 -- the highest in the world. But the study found that the United States had the single highest average among wealthy countries. Men and women had an average BMI of over 28. New Zealand was next. Japan had the lowest, at about 22 for women and 24 for men.
10. What was the “good news” in the report?
The percentage of people with this major cause of heart attacks and strokes has fallen since 1980.