Obesity is public enemy number
one, endocrinologist Gabriele Riccardi said on Thursday during a
meeting on food and eco-sustainability organised by the Barilla
Center for Food and Nutrition in Rome.
"Italy is losing ground in terms of longevity, life
expectancy, and it is forgetting the Mediterranean diet,"
Riccardi said.
"Italians manage to maintain a fairly balanced diet at
home, but the good intentions evaporate when they eat out," he
continued.
The current lifestyle is "obesogenic", Riccardi said.
"The emergency represented by the many overweight people
cannot be attributed to individual choices...There is a problem
that concerns sociaty as a whole. And obesity is a serious
epidemic that must be defeated at an epidemiological level," he
concluded.
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