“More than 60% of people in Bulgaria have a weight problem. Obesity is like an avalanche. Being fat is stigmatized. Society pretends to accept such people but that is hardly so,” says Desislava Hristozova, author of a book about the problems people..
A total of 36% of Bulgarians suffer from obesity of the first degree and about 40% have a body mass index (BMI) above the healthy one. According to data from a nationally representative sociological survey of the Trend Research Center, 49% of..
Two in three Bulgarians are overweight. With regard to this tendency, Bulgaria is running ahead of European and world obesity trends, indicate the latest data of the World Health Organization on occasion of the World Obesity Day marked on March 4. More..
