Abstract
According to the findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study, 2.1 billion people worldwide are too fat. Since 1980, the magnitude of this problem has grown by 28 % in adults and by as much as 47 % in children (Ng et al. 2014). In Germany, a study on adults’ health showed that 53 % of women and 67 % of men are overweight, with 24 % of women and 23 % of men suffering from obesity (Mensink et al. 2013).
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Mathias, D. (2016). Introduction. In: Staying Healthy From 1 to 100. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49195-9_1
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