Obese outnumber the world’s hungry
August 15th, 2006The BBC reports that there are more overweight people across the globe today than the malnourished ones. The ratio stands today at 1.25:1, with about 1bn obese individuals compared to about 800m hungry people.
It is interesting to note that the biggest increases are being seen in parts of Asia - a continent whose people are not generally envisioned as being obese. In India, for example, fitness and weight loss is on more resolution lists than it is on schedules. This is probably true in the West as well, but to a lesser extent. The findings in the article suggest cheaper foods in the US as a dominant factor contributing to obesity, which is widely accepted as a lifestyle related disease. This also reminds me of Dr. Nikhil Dhurandhar’s studies that strongly suggest that obesity may be caused by a virus.
I saved the BBC article caption because of a typographical error, that made me wonder what the ratios might be, in terms of collective weight in pounds.
