Obesity Levels Underpin Increase In Rates Of Communicable Disease

BMI View: Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases are the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)'s biggest epidemiological challenge. The underlying cause of these diseases is obesity. The rapid societal transition to a more urbanised lifestyle with little exercise, poor diets, genetic predisposition and the maintenance of historic cultural attitudes that do not stigmatise obesity has caused a huge increase in waistlines and rates of non-communicable diseases. While lifestyle diseases are a problem across all emerging markets, as purchasing power increases there is no region that more typifies this growing problem than the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

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