Launch of the 2022 European Obesity Report

Not a single country in the WHO European Region is on track to stop the rise in obesity by 2025 – that’s according to the 2022 European Obesity Report. What’s more, the report highlights serious risks to people’s health – including a stark warning obesity might overtake smoking as the main risk for preventable cancer. In this episode we dig more into the report and find out what countries can do to reverse this trend.

Show notes: 

• Obesity causes cancer and is major determinant of disability and death, warns new WHO report: https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/Life-stages/pages/news/news/2022/5/obesity-causes-cancer-and-is-major-determinant-of-disability-and-death,-warns-new-who-report
• New WHO report: Europe can reverse its obesity “epidemic”: https://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/sections/press-releases/2022/new-who-report-europe-can-reverse-its-obesity-epidemic
• WHO European Regional Obesity Report 2022: https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/noncommunicable-diseases/obesity/publications/2022/who-european-regional-obesity-report-2022