London - Saba:
A new study has indicated that the proportion of the world's population who are overweight or obese has doubled since 1990, with future projections until 2050 indicating a further increase, reaching about 60% among people over the age of 25 and more than 30% among children and young people.
As part of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the analysis modeled overweight and obesity rates from 1990 to 2021. The forecast until 2050 assumes that current trends will continue.
“If we act now, it is still possible to prevent a complete shift to global obesity in children and adolescents,” says Jessica Kerr, an obesity epidemiologist at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia, in the studies, which have been republished in the British medical journal The Lancet. “This is not the time to continue with business as usual.”
A new study has indicated that the proportion of the world's population who are overweight or obese has doubled since 1990, with future projections until 2050 indicating a further increase, reaching about 60% among people over the age of 25 and more than 30% among children and young people.
As part of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the analysis modeled overweight and obesity rates from 1990 to 2021. The forecast until 2050 assumes that current trends will continue.
“If we act now, it is still possible to prevent a complete shift to global obesity in children and adolescents,” says Jessica Kerr, an obesity epidemiologist at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia, in the studies, which have been republished in the British medical journal The Lancet. “This is not the time to continue with business as usual.”