It is now the most common form of malnutrition in many countries, researchers say
The number of people living with obesity worldwide has surpassed one billion, according to a global analysis.
Research published by the journal The Lancet suggests that as of 2022, around 159 million children and adolescents and 879 million adults are obese.
In the UK, around 16.8 million people are living with obesity – which includes eight million women, 7.4 million men, 760,000 boys and 590,000 girls.
Data showed that globally, obesity rates among children and adolescents quadrupled from 1990 to 2022, while rates among adults more than doubled.
Meanwhile, the study also revealed over the same period, rates of underweight dropped among children and adolescents and more than halved among adults worldwide.
This makes obesity the most common form of malnutrition in many countries, the researchers said.
🙄 everybodies fault but my own.
You can walk into most supermarkets and have more selection of inexpensive and diverse fruits, veggies, proteins in the vast majority of the US and EU. It’s cheaper than processed and plentiful.
“Healthy food is cheap as dirt in 95% of the US” is wholly false. Downvote all you like, but it won’t change the fact that your hyperbole is bullshit. To say nothing of the inherent privilege in such a flippant misrepresentation of facts. 🤌🏼
The US Census says 27M Americans are food insecure. At best it’s 10%. You all think that’s driving 97%? Unhinged stuff really.
New flash, we’re all food insecure. And that’s allowing for those that would otherwise starve without someone helping them out. A startling majority of the current global population have no survival training, and a large portion thereof have little wilderness experience.
To clarify, your statement that good is “cheap” is blithely privileged and tone deaf, unless it was unintentional.
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