The predecessor of WHO can be traced back to the International Public Health Bureau established in Paris in 1907 and the International Union Health Organization established in Geneva in 1920. After the war, with the decision of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, representatives of 64 countries held the International Health Assembly in new york on July 1946, and signed the Constitution of the World Health Organization. 1948 On April 7th, the law came into effect after being approved by 26 UN member states, and the World Health Organization was proclaimed. April 7th every year has become a global "World Health Day". On June 24th of the same year, at the first World Health Assembly held in Geneva, the World Health Organization was formally established with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Paul Zimmet, a famous Australian diabetes expert, said that obesity is no less threatening to the world than global warming and bird flu. Obesity spreads like an epidemic, devouring the whole world. Obesity has become a serious global public health problem. Statistics released by the World Health Organization (WHO) show that at least 654.38 billion adults are overweight and 300 million are obese. In addition to the traditional "obese countries" such as the United States, Britain and Germany, the number of obese people in countries such as Asia and Africa is also soaring. Obesity has seriously threatened global development.
According to the International Herald Tribune, in the big cities of China, 30% of adults are obese and 12% are obese. /kloc-20% of people over 0/8 years old are affected by hypertension. In just six years, the proportion of adults over the age of 20 suffering from diabetes in cities has dropped from 4. 6% has increased to 6. 4%。
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that obesity is the chief culprit endangering the health of all mankind in the 2nd/kloc-0th century.