World governments focus too much on fighting terrorism while obesity and other "lifestyle diseases" are killing millions more people,an international conference heard on Monday.Overcoming deadly factors such as poor diet,smoking and a lack of exercise should take top priority in the fight against a growing epidemic of preventable chronic disease,legal and health experts said.Global terrorism was a real threat but posed far less than obesity,diabetes and smoking-related illness,professor of health law Lawrence Gostin said."Ever since September 11,we’ve been lurching from one crisis to the next,which has really frightened the public," Gostin said."While we’ve been focusing so much attention on that,we’ve had this silent epidemic of obesity that’s killing millions of people around the world,and we’re devoting very little attention to it and a negligible amount of money." The fifth annual conference of the Oxford health alliance-co-founded by Oxford University-has brought together world experts from academia,government,business,law,economics and urban planning to promote change.An estimated 388 million people will die from chronic disease worldwide over the next 10 years.
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