Obesity-as the important problem in economic.

It happened two days ago:
The thickest inhabitant of the Earth does not wish to lay down in hospital.

"Hard work - to carry to the hospital the thickest inhabitant of a planet. Employees of British "first aid" had faced with this problem. .They should take the person in weight of almost 500 kgs up to destination,it is about 250 kilometers. By the way, the person itself does not wish to grow thin,and considers itself as a man pleasant in every aspect.

For this purpose militarians offered helicopter " Chinuk" which usually carries tanks. But it costed 200 thousand pounds per flight.

Physicians chosed a budgetary variant - special car (it is one of the few in the country, if not unique machine which is specially equipped for transportation of patients with excess weight) that costs 90 thousand pounds.

The carriage of "first aid" for the patient who did not want rescue. He dreamed to become the thickest person on the Earth. And he had known, that it was dangerous for his life.
Also his sister is in clinic of neurosises now.She had a nervous failure because doctors have forced her brother to grow thin for 127 kgs, but he typed 160 kgs for only 1 year.

He had not left the house for 8 years - the big person in the small world in size of a bed laid and played a computer. He had received physical inability with a big pleasure -and now the state pays to seven people who serve him.Total 100 thousand pounds a year from the budget.

Mason usually eats four packs of the tinned beans, a pack of sausages in the dough,the big fish pie, the fat tinned chicken, six packings of chips and sweet aerated water. So, 20 000 calories in a day."


Now Britain takes the first place in the Europe on obesity:each fourth adult and each third child are suffering from it.The government tried to forbid to sell fast food near to schools.It is considered that unhealthy food kills the nation. But parents have submitted the protest to parliament - " you break our right to feed children with chips and chocolates ".

Mardje Applegame, the dietitian : " This problem is more psychological -this people need help, but some of them are so
happy with they life that it is impossible to convince them to grow thin ".

Obesity became the main reason of falling of work capacity of americans, and its treatment costs more than struggle against the consequences of smoking and an alcoholism.
But nobody represents its economic consequences:

According to the World organization of public health services, today 1 billion inhabitants of a planet suffer from excess of weight, and 300 million of them - from obesity. The basic impact of disaster was taken up with the developed countries. In the USA excess of weight is fixed at a greater part of adult population, obesity - at each third representative. In Britain they are noted at a three from each four adults. The quantity of suffering from obesity in England has grown in 5 times for the last 25 years .

As Rand corporation affirms in the recent report of the research , there are two reasons for that. The first - computerization and automobilization which assume sedentary office work, absence of the time for independent cooking.The second - movement of the prices for food stuffs: for the last 10 years cost of the fresh fruits and vegetables grew more quickly, and sweets and soft drinks - more slowly, than a consumer price index.
Therefore people prefer cheap fast food to healthy meal.
That it is a question of epidemic, became clear even in 80th years. However obesity involved much less attention than to the smoking and an alcoholism. Until it was not founded out that it manages more expensively than traditional bad habits.

However the most menacing consequence of epidemic - mass invalidity. Especially among 30-40 years old persons. Almost the same picture is in other age groups. Notwithstanding that the prevailing reason of invalidity of Americans-mental diseases, obesity develops in such rates which can explain growth of invalidity.

The greatest contribution to the growth of invalidity connected with obesity, bring a diabete. The committee on public health services of the English House of Commons expects that by 2020 half of British children will suffer from obesity - the first generation of which will start to die before their parents.

Today the general burden, which obesity imposes on economy of the United Kingdom in the form of charges on medicine and the earnings lost because of illness,estimated in 7,4 billion pounds ($13 billion) a year - the sum which equal to a half of British transport budget.

Struggle with this epidemic, stimulated by such forecasts, covers almost whole branches and even the food-processing industry in the Europe and America. A conclusion from the report of the British parliamentary committee became the requirement to enter marking of all food stuffs by red, yellow and green labels depending on their potential danger. In the United States similar projects do not go further supply by similar indexes of restaurant menus yet. But some states have already imposed the taxes for the unhealthy food, called "twinkey" - under the name of the cheap vanilla cakes which were extended in hungry years for the USA of the Second world war. But the American sugar industry struggles for a survival, demanding from the congress to stop financing the CART which calls to limit a share of sugar in caloric content of each product in ten percent.