You may have missed World Digestive Health Day organised on 29 May each year by the World Gastroenterology Organisation, but more than 43,000 food bank volunteers turned up at supermarkets across Portugal on that day to collect food for distribution among 426,000 of the nation’s hungry, writes Len Port.
Many other relevant statistics have emerged from various sources since then. For example, according to a report by United European Gastroenterology (UEG), the level of obesity in children is increasing at an alarming rate. It is estimated that one in three children between the ages of six and nine in Europe are either overweight or obese.