Europe battles with obesity.

摘要

Humble pie is not easy to swallow, but in early 2007, the European Union (EU) health commissioner Markos Kyprianous left no uncertainties about how Europeans had to digest the unpleasant truth-more than 50% of adults in Europe were obese or overweight.In the WHO European Region, three times more people are obese today than in the past 20 years, and a staggering ten times more children are obese than in the 1970s. In 2006, the EU announced that an estimated 7% of health costs were being spent treating cases of obesity.