Wellness Trends

According to World Health Organization (WHO)
70% of deaths are due to heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer.
50% of these deaths are diet-related or due to what we eat (poor nutrition).
70% of visits to the doctors is diet-related or due to what we eat.
Obesity is a global epidemic.
Approximately 85% of people with diabetes are type 2, and of these, 90% are obese or overweight.
Globally, there are over 1 billion overweight adults, at least 300 million of them are obese.

Chronic overweight and obesity contribute significantly to osteoarthritis (a major cause of disability in adults), type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke, and certain forms of cancer (cancer of the breast, colon, prostate, endometrium, kidney, and gall bladder).
- World Health Organization (WHO)

Two-thirds (66%) of American adults are seriously overweight or obese.
One in six young people are obese, and one in three are overweight.
Obesity increases the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis-related disability, and cancer.

Even people with healthy weights die from heart disease, cancer, and other diseases caused by poor diet and/or physical inactivity.
Only 10% of Americans eat a healthy diet.
Only 2% of children eat a healthy diet.
25% of children ages 5 to 10 years have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or other early warning signs of heart disease.
There is a rising rate of children with diabetes.
Between 50% and 80% of diabetes cases are associated with unhealthy eating patterns and sedentary lifestyle.
- National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity
Diabetes affects 246 million people worldwide.
Each year, a further 7 million people develop diabetes.
Every 10 seconds, a person dies from diabetes-related causes.
Every 10 seconds, two people develop diabetes.- International Diabetes Federation

In the EU 27 (European Union), about 35.9% (>143 million) adults are overweight and about 17.2% (>68.5 million ) are obese.
Over 53% of the EU population are overweight or obese.
- International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO)