“Study: Faster weight gain in rural areas”
“We are becoming increasingly fatter. But the notion that city dwellers are at risk of becoming overweight to a greater extent than those living in rural areas is challenged by a new study.”
“the Global figures show that people in the cities put on less overweight than people who live outside the cities, 38 per cent among women and 24 percent less among men.”
“– the Results of this massive global study overturns common perceptions that more people in the cities is the main reason for the global rise of obesity, ” says Majid Ezzati at Imperial College in London, who helped lead the work on the study.”
“the Study, published in the journal Nature, analysed the height and weight from approximately 112 million adults in 200 countries and territories. Kroppsmasseindexet (BMI) between 1985 and 2017 increased by 2.1 for women and men in rural areas. In the cities, the increase is not as great, the 1.3 and 1.6.”
“For 30 years ago had the townspeople in the majority of countries included in the study higher BMI than those living in rural areas. Today, the difference decreased greatly, and in several countries, the countryside has gone on the cities.”
“According to the researchers, better access to healthy food and more training facilities some of the reasons that the increase in mass in the cities is not equal.”
