Nearly 30% of world population is overweight: study

Blame it on the sugar because that's the main dietary factor driving the increase in obesity. There is far too many that eat not enough healthy fats. The combination of too much sugar and too little fat is creating this crisis. What promotes health is a diet high in healthy fats and low in sugar with non-vegetable carbs and a moderate amount of high quality organic protein. Also getting a sufficient amount of exercise is critical.

So, 30% of humans in general are idiots, it seems.

Look on the positive side. If 100% of the worlds people become obese, they can't fight wars. US military has this problem now. It can't find enough thin people to fight. So it is a beginning of world peace.

Overweight and out of shape are two different things, however.

And at least another 15% are malnourished. So about half the world is either eating too much or too little.

74 excuses for government to tax, regulate, control people. Sorry But school lunch nonsenseband the rest of that list is just bureaucrats looking for money and power.

There are 2 factors in play here. The first is in fact food manufacturing. Food today is digested by the body at nearly 90% efficency. Go back to before the obesity problem and food then digested at around 50%. This is because most food back then actually needed gut bacteria to digest, which means the bacteria takes some of the calories. Today, like a typical government controlled and heavily processed school lunch, the body can digest on its own, getting all the calories. This means too much caloric intake, over what is used and the body naturally stores the excess. This factor contributes to the main problem and it is simply not enough calories are used in a day. Exercise, or lack of it. The reason is related to the first factor. The body probably has a minimum amount of calories to take in, not minimal to survive. Perhaps you could survive on 600 calories a day But the body is probably programmed to demand a certain amount of volume. Since the volume is the same But now packed with more calories the person ends up obese because it's impossible to cut volume below the minimum. All of these calories are not burned mainly because people don't anything physically. Or maybe they exercise But it is not enough to use up the calories being consumed. A body probably demands a couple pounds of food a day But those pounds now have twice the digestable calories. You can't reduce volume below two pounds or it kicks in an overactive storage response. So where does a person find 2 pounds of low calorie food?

Perhaps a 3rd factor is evolution. It is probably better to eat foods which are consistent with the location of your ancestors. For example if your aancestors came from northern Europe, where meat was eaten 6 months of the year because of winter, then you should too. If your ancestors came f e'er on India, where fruits and vegetables are readily available year round, then eat the same.

You are what you eat.

Generally speaking, obesity can be well prevented if you burn more than what you eat. Burning calories should be greater than what your calorie intake. Simple. Yes, some may not agree, but generally speaking this is still true. Not too complicated.

Drop electronic toys and get physical :-)