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You don't necessarily need to read stories like the below to know that obesity is out of control. Just attend any social event - a concert, play, sporting event, and if you have walked the planet long enough to have a frame of reference, you know that there are a lot more fatties walking the earth. We have an overweight Democrat presidential candidate, an obese AG, we've even had an obese Surgeon General. Educated people that know better can't keep off the weight. Fat shaming is now a PC no-no, and we are witnessing a trend to consider obesity as normal. The question of the hour is - why is this happening? Why is obesity out of control?
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(CNN)The obesity epidemic has gone global, and it may be worse than most thought.
A new study in The Lancet says that if current trends continue, 18% of men and 21% of women will be obese by 2025.
In four decades, global obesity has more than tripled among men and doubled among women, the study says.
We have transitioned from a world in which underweight prevalence was more than double that of obesity to one in which more people are obese than underweight.
The paper compared body mass index trends from 1975 to 2014 in 200 countries.
Also notable:
• Odds are pretty high that your country has more obese people than underweight ones. More men were obese than underweight in 136 countries, and more women were obese than underweight in 165 of them.
• In 1975, 2.6% of the world's population was obese; in 2014, that number jumped to 8.9%.
• High-income English-speaking countries (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States) account for more than a quarter of the world's severely obese people. Coming in second, though, are the Middle East and North Africa, which is home to 26 million severely obese people, or 13.9% of the world's severely obese population.
• Forty percent to 50% of women in several Caribbean and Middle Eastern countries are obese.
• Make way for China. In 1975, China was 60th and 41st for severely obese men and women, respectively. In 2014, it was second for both.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/01/health/global-obesity-study/