Dear MEL Topic Readers,
More
obese people in the
world than underweight, says study
Decades ago, underweight
was a far more serious problem than overweight. Now, obesity is the leading
weight problem in the world.
It is
estimated that there were approximately 100 million obese people out of the
total population of four billion worldwide in 1975. Four decades later, the
number went up to 640 million out of the total of seven billion in 2014. This
means while the world population grew by 75% in forty years, the number of obese
people increased by over six folds.
The U.S, and China
are leading the trend, reaching 90 million obese people respectively. The UK seems
no less critical than those two populous countries by having 15 million obese
people, which represents roughly a quarter of its total population.
The cause is
simple. Less consumption than intake, the same as money. Then the solution is
simple, isn’t it?
Enjoy reading
and thinking what could solve this problem.
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