Abstract / Description
We now find ourselves in a world in which one in three adults is overweight or obese Unhealthy diets are an important determinant of overweight and obesity and also contribute directly to a variety of other causes of disability and death. In fact, together with physical inactivity, dietary risk factors are responsible for 10% of disability-adjusted life years lost globally Like many risk factors, unhealthy diets are not evenly distributed in the population. In most developed countries, and increasingly in developing countries too, obesity and unhealthy diets are more common in more socioeconomically disadvantaged groups Socioeconomic inequalities in health and disease are at least partly due to these inequalities in diet and obesity.