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.
It’s often easier to become obese though. Which is why there’s like 7 billion people who are not obese
I mean, you can’t really count the billions that have trouble getting enough to eat, either.
There is like 2.3 billion who are food insecure, with 828 million of them going hungry.
https://www.who.int/news/item/06-07-2022-un-report--global-hunger-numbers-rose-to-as-many-as-828-million-in-2021
Ironically and unfortunately, there may even be some overlap between the obese and those who are food insecure.
There’s hunger and nutrition. I believe that there are many foods that will satiate hunger without providing adequate nutrition.
Not to dismiss the struggles of those who literally don’t have enough food, though. I would rather be missing some nutrients than have nothing at all.