Russians suffer from obesity three times more than 20 years ago. Nutritionists report that this trend is mainly caused by changes in eating habits and eating too fatty foods, such as sausages.

The information was voiced by Sergey Boytsov, specialist of the Ministry of Health of Russia in vocational medicine. Specialists met to formulate a new strategy for a healthy lifestyle of Russians.

The meeting discussed both the methods for introducing the strategy and the facts and figures describing the current situation..

It turned out that female obesity increased from 20 to 30%, and male obesity from 9 to 37%. These indicators are really scary, because a lot of excess weight is always accompanied by a number of diseases, for example, strokes, diabetes, heart attacks and others. According to Boytsov, among modern food the most harmful is sausage, in which "

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