The World Health Organization warns that cancer, heart disease, and other chronic conditions, which already kill more than 24 million people a year, will impose increasing burdens of suffering and disability on hundreds of million of others.
Health Enemy #8: Obesity
Obesity has reached global epidemic proportions, with more than 1 billion adults overweight and at least 300 million of them clinically obese.
(World Health Organization)
Health Enemy #7: Arthritis
46.4 million adults, or just over 1 in 5, in the United States have doctor-diagnosed arthritis.
(2003-2005 National Health Interview Survey)
Health Enemy #6: Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis affects an estimated 75 million people in Europe, the United States, and Japan.
Health Enemy #5: Diabetes
The 2007 estimate of worldwide adult diabetes sufferers was 236 million.
(International Diabetes Federation)
Health Enemy #4: Alzheimer’s
There are currently an estimated 37 million people worldwide with dementia, with Alzheimer’s disease causing the majority of the cases.
Health Enemy #3: Stroke
Every year, 16 million people experience a stroke, including 5.7 million stroke-related deaths.
(Strong K, Mathers C, Bonita R. Preventing stroke: saving lives around the world. Lancet Neurology 2007; 6: 182-187)
Health Enemy #2: Cancer
In 2005, cancer was responsible for 7.6 million deaths.
(World Health Organization)
Health Enemy #1: Heart Disease
The 2003 WHO World Health Report listed total world deaths from all heart diseases at 16.7 million.
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