ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Italy is nominated to lead the alliance with the countries of Central Eastern Europe to export health best practices on, among other things, also for prevention and care of obesity. It is the proposal launched by Simone Crolla, CEO of AmCham Italy, during the conference “The Law on Obesity: The Italian best case model in the world”, promoted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy to share the historical milestone reached by Italy of the approval that took place in early October of the law on obesity.
“We are here to celebrate an institutional, legislative success, important for Italy and the world – said Crolla – and to announce a project that AmCham Italy has married and that will contribute to launching at European level, because it is a problem not only Italian. In Brussels, we will launch an acronym the so-called Cota12, which will be made by 12 countries and sees Italy as a leader because here comes this legislation that will have to be exported”. The Cota, Chronic and Obesity Tackling Alliance, is a new European platform for public-private collaboration, created to strengthen cooperation between representatives of governments, parliaments, scientific societies, patient associations, industry and civil society organizations from 12 European countries. The aim is to promote, from a multi-stakeholder perspective, a cooperation based on scientific evidence for the fight against obesity and chronic diseases.
Obesita is recognized as a true global health emergency, with huge social and economic impacts: it is estimated that without effective interventions the global cost of obesity and overweight could rise to 4,32 trillion dollars a year by 2035. In Italy the situation is particularly alarming with 6 million citizens suffering from it and 23 million overweight and a significant spread among the younger ones. A global challenge that requires a courageous paradigm shift in health policies not to stumble into the next health crisis of the future.
“We talk about a theme that knows no boundaries. In Italy a third of the population, therefore one out of three, is overweight,” explained the president of the Social Affairs Committee of the House, Ugo Cappellacci, “there is an important incidence on children, so they are important numbers and are numbers behind which there are stories of life, of families, of suffering and ransom, but above all there is a health path and there is not only treatment but there is also an integrated approach to prevention”.
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