European Obesity Day

BRUSSELS, May 20, 2011 - Workshops and workouts, health checks and info campaigns to stop the 'yo-yo effect' of repeated weight loss and gain will highlight the second European Obesity Day on 21 May, sounding the alarm that over 200 million European adults are overweight and a rising death rate looms.

BRUSSELS - On the 16th May Member of European Parliament Magor Imre Csibi (Romanian MEP of the Alliance for Liberals and Democrats), the UK National Obesity Forum (NOF) and the Belgian Obese Patients organisation (BOLD) will launch the "European Obesity Day" online survey.