Sobrepeso e integración económica en México Overweight and Economic Integration in Mexico

The obesity in Mexico and the world has been growing systematicly, to the degree that has turned into a pandemic with strong consequences into very serious sufferings of public health as hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer, everything which has strong impacts in the public finance and in the economic growth. In Mexico, from the nineties, the obesity and the overweight have grown in an exponential way, much more than in The United States. Like hypothesis, we suggest that the entry into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 not only modified the structure of the trade and of the capital flows. Also it prepared a substantial change in the habits of consumption of the population, particularly the infantile one, which demonstrated in a notable increase in the consumption of delicacies. These results emerge of the analysis of the National Survey I deposit Expense of the Homes (enigh) for the year 1992 and 1996.