WHO says 1 billion overweight

all processed food for shelf-life and cost-cutting. They'll clog your system like inorganic plastic

 

the world is going to collapse in on itself!!!...

so if we all lived on the Moon, none of use would be overweight?

 

Didn't we just read about Japan having trouble finding where to put all the rice they are forced to import.

I am sure many other countries have tons of excess food.

Can't we share, at least what we don't need?

 

But socialist N Korea and socialist Zimbabwe report starving and famine...

 

And when did they get the time to weigh that many people? And what standards are they using to determine what overweight is? How many billions of people are underweight? Which is worse? Seems like any half-baked statement can get into the news these days.

 

I do.

 

Imagine what a problem obesity poses to health care. The cost to the community, the tax payer, is astronomical. To what can we contribute this cancerous growth? Ignorance? Indifference? Plain stupidity?

 

5 more are overweight"

For every malnourished or overweight adult, how many are at a healthy weight?

 

Sencho, try reading the article and you will get your answers except for the half-baked question about weighing everybody.

Sarge, the uneducated answer to your question would involve taking 6bil (total) minus 1bil (overweight) minus .8bil (malnourished) and getting 4.2billion healthy weigh people. I have a BSc in Human Performance/Kinesiology and can tell you there is a big difference between 'not obese' and 'healthy weight'. I can also tell you that the BMI is a very crude measurement but it's cheap and reasonably valid for large populations. I have not studied data recently but I would hazard an educated guess that less than half of the current world population is within 5kg of their healthiest weight.

Most people don't seem to recognize how neatly part of the solution to the obesity epidemic fits in as part of the solution to global warming. Simply put, we burn too many fossil fuels in our laziness. Countries with the highest car use usually have very high obesity rates. If we decreased distance driven by 25% (a lot easier to do than most people are willing to recognize) it would go a long way to mitigating global warming and obesity rates would plummet. Consider in Japan how even taking the train usually involves walking or cycling several minutes to get to a station at each end instead of the typical North American who walks only a few steps to reach their car or the elevator. For the few people who truly have no option but driving to work, imagine how easy the commute would be if the roads were less crowded. It is to your own benefit to encourage your friends and family to get out of their cars even if you don't.