UN calls summit on spread of ‘lifestyle’ diseases

Sarah Bosely
Guardian

September 16, 2011

World leaders at a meeting of the United Nations on Monday will agree a deal to try to curb the spread of preventable “lifestyle” diseases, amid concern that progress is already being hampered by powerful lobbyists from the food, alcohol and tobacco industries.

Cancers, heart disease, diabetes and lung conditions already cost rich countries dear in terms of the health bills and productive life span of their citizens. But the scourge of what the World Health Organisation calls the “non-communicable diseases” (NCDs) is rapidly spreading across all parts of the globe, fuelled by obesity as a result of bad diet and sedentary lifestyles, together with alcohol and smoking. These diseases were responsible for around 36m of the 57m global deaths in 2008, including about 9m before the age of 60 – and many are preventable.

While countries such as the UK have imposed smoking bans, taxed cigarettes and alcohol heavily and restricted junk food advertising to children, most developing countries have yet to address these issues – and the food and tobacco industries are accused of adopting marketing and production strategies there that would be unacceptable in Europe or in north America.

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7 Responses to “UN calls summit on spread of ‘lifestyle’ diseases”

  1. FUCK THE U.N.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. the part that gets me, ‘cancers, ect.. cost dear in terms of health bills and PRODUCTIVE LIFE-SPANS of their citizens’. yes i know that smoking and drinking are bad habits but what happen to personal liberties, if some one wants to smoke a cig or drink a beer of have a bag of doritos, let the person who does so deal with the aftermath. same thing with drugs, or what the govt considers drugs. now excuse me, its my smoke break.

  3. This main high-rise bldg. complex is NOT the top of the pyramid. But it is a representative of just a couple of circles out from the center of “TheCirclesOfPower”. Without a doubt.

  4. 80% of hear attack victims die within one hour of the first symptom… cost to health system…STUFF ALL…..
    Diabetes type 2 is controlled… through diet and exercise and is a Vaccination related sympton…

    OLD AGE biggest medical expense in every country in the world!!!! The buggers just keep on going and have Demetia and age related diseases which put massive burden on health…
    Dont believe me??? Then go to your local hosptial and see for yourself that most people there are over 65!!!!

    So eat, drink, be merry and die quickly

    • The words of Eugenics. To use commonplace boogeyman language. You ‘apparently’ would fit quite nicely into Nazi thinking.

  5. Ok, make you a deal, I will keep smoking at my own risk, won’t use the healthcare when I get sick. Only thing I ask is at the end, give me a pill so I can be done, instead of walking around screaming in pain upsetting the non-smokers.

  6. OH DEAR GOD NO THEY WANT TO TAX FOOD

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