Health report: Italians "getting fatter"
The Italians have been getting fatter and fatter and lazier in the last few years, said a report released on Tuesday by the National Observatory of Health in the Italian regions.
The number of people who are overweight has grown steadily over the past three years, from 33.5 percent of the population in 2005 to 35 percent in 2008, the report said. The rates of obesity followed a similar pattern, based on 10.2 percent of the population in 2008. Southern Italy were most affected by the development, with the registration Basilicata 40.4 percent of residents are overweight and 39.8 percent Campania. The report said the findings come from poor nutrition, particularly an increase in the consumption of sweets, snacks and alcohol, and lack of exercise. The number of Italians that they usually do not exercise dropped from 20.9 percent of the population in 2007 to 20.5 percent in 2008, according to the report. In the last three years, smoking has also been on the rise, it said, with the number of men from 28.3 percent in 2007 to 28.8 percent in 2008, and the number of women from 16.2 percent to 17 percent. The report also said that the differences between southern and northern Italy was partly a result of the regional health and prevention campaigns. He noted large differences in per capita spending on health care, of 1581 euros (about 1994 U.S. dollars) in Calabria in the south up to 2200 euros in Bolzano in the north. Average regional editions, however, were from 2006 to 2007, from 1692 euros to 1731 euros, the report says. (1 U.S. dollar = 0.79271 Euro) |
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