Over past three decades. obesity rates increased fourfold among children and doubled among adults
More than 1 billion people worldwide are now living with obesity, with rates among children increasing fourfold across a 32-year period, according to new research.
Analysis of the weight and height measurements of over 220 million people from more than 190 countries shows how body mass index (BMI) changed across the world between 1990 and 2022.
Approximately 1,500 researchers contributed to the study by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). Published in the Lancet, it found that over the period obesity rates increased fourfold among children, and doubled among adults.
Before you start fat shaming, before we even get into things like food deserts in America which keep millions from eating healthily, note that one of the most obese populations in the world is in Palestine. Is it because they’re lazy or stupid? Is it because there’s an overabundance of food? No. It’s because they have had virtually no option to eat healthily due to Israel’s apartheid.
“42.0% of adult (aged 18 years and over) women and 29.5% of adult men are living with obesity.”
https://globalnutritionreport.org/resources/nutrition-profiles/asia/western-asia/state-palestine/
Obesity is a very complex problem.
The idea you cant be poor and obese at the same time holds hard, but clearly the nutrition at the bottom of the pile is worse than it used to be