A third of adults in world 'are overweight or obese'
More than a third of all adults across the world are overweight or obese, a report from a UK think-tank has revealed, leading to calls for governments to do more to tackle the growing crisis.
Obesity crisis balloons in developing countries
A report by the Overseas Development Institute has found that over-consumption of food linked to increased prosperity in the developing world was largely behind the growing obesity crisis.
According to the report:
- The percentage of adults who were overweight or obese grew from 23% to 34% between 1980 and 2008
- Some 904 million people in developing countries were classed as overweight or obese in 2008, almost four times the 250 million in 1980
- The number of people who were overweight or obese in high-income countries increased by 1.7 times over the same period
- At the same time, under-nourishment is still a problem for hundreds of millions of people
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