Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences estimated the number of overweight Russians

In Russia, potentially 70 million people are overweight or obese, said Natalya Mokrysheva, director of the National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology named after academician I. I. Dedov of the Russian Ministry of Health, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

MOSCOW, October 7 - RIA Novosti. Potentially 70 million people in Russia have obesity and overweight, said Natalya Mokrysheva, director of the National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology named after academician I. I. Dedov of the Russian Ministry of Health, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

“The set of measures that we have already taken to combat obesity in children, and the set of measures that my respected colleagues spoke about ... it should definitely lead us to the fact that those same 70 million Russians who are potentially overweight and obese will be covered by everyone’s attention at the state level,” Mokrysheva said during the congress.

She added that the country will cope with this big problem thanks to the measures taken.