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AN EFFECTIVE SOLUTION TO THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC SOLUTION EFFECTIVE OBESITY EPIDEMIC THE An amazing low-calorie dietary protocol that utilises human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) is having enormous success for overweight and obese people and offers a way out of the global health crisis. A Costly Problem Worldwide ook around. Notice anything? Our world is getting fatter... much fatter. Never before in the history of humanity have such corpulent bodies walked the earth. Overweight and obese men, women and children now make up the majority of the population of most westernised countries. The USA (74.1 per cent), Australia (67.4 per cent), New Zealand (68.4 per cent) and the UK (61 per cent), have the distinction of being ranked in the top 25 most overweight countries in the world.' The World Health Organization (WHO) now describes the prevalence of obesity as an epidemic. (Obesity is defined by percentage of body fat. Women with more than 32 per cent of their weight from fat and men with more than 25 per cent are deemed obese.) People all over the world are getting fatter than ever. Once considered a problem only in high-income countries, obesity is dramatically on the rise in low- and middle-income countries. In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of an emerging epidemic of obesity in the developing societies. In fact, the rate of increase in obesity prevalence in developing countries can often exceed that in the industrialised world. Indeed, the yearly rate of increase in overweight and obesity in regions of Asia, Africa and South America is two- to five-fold that seen in the United States.’ The statistics revealing the impact of this epidemic are staggering. ¢ Three quarters of American adults and nearly 24 per cent of US children and adolescents will be overweight by 2015.’ By 2030, over 86 per cent of American adults will be overweight or obese.‘ ¢ In America, obese people now surpass the number who are overweight.’ ¢ One in 10 British children is likely to become obese by 2015. e In New Zealand, a 2006-07 health survey found that one in three adults were overweight (36.3 per cent) and one in four were obese (26.5 per cent).’ ¢ Excess weight has reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1.7 billion adults being either overweight or obese.’ ¢ WHO predicts there will be 2.3 billion overweight adults in the world by 2015, and more than 700 million of them will be obese.’ People are getting so fat that new categories have been created to define accurately the growing fatness of people. Once the term "morbidly obese" described a small segment of the population, but beyond this is now the “super-obese" category. Almost 500,000 Australians are "super-obese", a fivefold increase during the past two decades. The super-obese have a body mass index of 50 or more and weigh upwards of 200 kilograms. It is predicted that the ranks of the super-obese will double in the next decade." This current health crisis has created a growing panic around the world, threatening not only to overwhelm health care systems but also to create excessive financial burdens on governments. For example, the health cost of obesity in the USA is as high as USS$147 billion annually, based on a new by Sherrill Sellman, ND © 2010 450 W. 7th Street #1502 Tulsa, OK 74119, USA Email: drsellman@ whatwomenmustknow.com Website: http://whatwomenmustknow.com 450 W. 7th Street #1502 Tulsa, OK 74119, USA Email: drsellman@ whatwomenmustknow.com Website: JUNE - JULY 2010 NEXUS ° 17 www.nexusmagazine.com