Alcohol causes more deaths than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence

Revenue growth encourages greater consumption of alcoholic beverages, lately particularly in densely populated African and Asian countries, including India and South Africa, and drinking is a growing problem in many developed countries, the statement said UN agencies.

Nevertheless, the control policy of consuming excessive amounts of alcohol is almost non-existent, and the government gives it very low priority, though the consequences are numerous and serious - of causing accidents on the roads, through violence, various diseases, neglect, and frequent absenteeism.

Each year from diseases associated with alcoholism in the world dies around 2.5 million people, according to a WHO report entitled "Global Report on the relationship between alcohol and health. " "Hazard of alcohol is especially bad for the younger age groups, and excessive alcohol consumption is a leading risk factor for mortality in men aged 15 to 59 years. "

Every fifth person in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States die from the consequences of drinking, the highest rate in the world. Data on the growing resort to alcoholism and frequent drinking are coming from Brazil, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and Ukraine.

WHO also reports that excessive alcohol consumption is associated with 60 kinds of diseases and injuries, such as cirrhosis of the liver, epilepsy, alcohol poisoning, car accidents, violence, and several types of cancer - including colorectal, breast, throat and liver. "Seven years ago we have not had solid proof of a causal relationship between drinking and breast cancer. Now we have it, " the president said the WHO's department of alcohol abuse, who participated in the preparation of reports, Poznyak Vladimir.

One of the most effective ways to reduce excessive alcohol consumption, especially among the young, is to increase the price, and should be followed and set age limits for buying and consuming alcoholic beverages, is, among other things, the WHO report.

WHO: It is necessary to reduce the number of advertisements for junk food

Advertising junk food and drinks rich in salt, sugar and saturated fatty acids, and trans-fatty acids, encourages children to consume them in even greater quantities

Governments need to collaborate with companies to reduce advertising of food products with high salt, sugar and saturated fatty acids, which are particularly affected young people and children who because of such foods is threatening epidemics of obesity and various other diseases, reported on Friday, officials WHO . The call came as part of the campaign focused on the fight against chronic non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease, more frequent causes of premature death among residents of poor countries.

WHO experts contacted the leading companies in this sector - Coca-Cola, Mexican Grupo Bimbo, General Mills, Kellogg, Kraft, McDonald's, Mars, Nestle, Pepsi co, Unilever and the World Association of advertisers. Their representatives have agreed to adopt guidelines on the procedure to be faced with the problem, and have pledged not to advertise unhealthy products to children younger than 12 years. Armstrong believes that most of all be taken into account that the government should choose the most effective way of not advertising unhealthy products. Norwegian Health Minister Bjorn-Inge Larsen believes that governments have a range of options for implementing the act passed the proposal and will continue to pressure the company to reduce the advertising of unhealthy products, among which, the junk food and include tobacco and alcohol.