Bleich SN, Vercammen KA, Zatz LY, Frelier JM, Ebbeling CB, Peeters A. Interventions to prevent global childhood overweight and obesity: a systematic review.
No significant associations were observed for global obesity, overweight, abdominal obesity measured by WC, hypercholesterolemia, increased LDL-c, or decreased HDL-c (Table 2).
A recent study on the global burden of overweight and obesity estimated that overweight and obesity rates have increased to 22% in boys and 19% in girls (28).
With one in three people worldwide either overweight or undernourished, the global nutrition crisis affects every country on the planet and demands an urgent step-change in response.
3 The WHO predicted that over the next ten years global rates of overweight and obesity would double, and by 2015 roughly 2.3 billion adults would be overweight and over 700 million obese.
According to the World Health Organisation, 13% of the global population is overweight or obese and the proportion is rising.
Jiang He and his colleagues at Tulane University have estimated that by 2030 the global number of overweight and obese people may double to 3.3 billion.
Currently, more than one-third of the global population is overweight or obese, which is a risk factor for major causes of death including cardiovascular disease, numerous cancers, and diabetes.
IT HAS become a cliché to call obesity a big problem for a reason: more than 2.1 billion people, or nearly 30% of the global population, are overweight or obese.
More than 2.1 billion people around the world – or nearly 30% of the global population – are overweight or obese, with the figure set to rise to almost half of the world's adult population by 2030, according to the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), which produced the report.
