Putting a little bit of kilos has never been a good thing. A new study by the Lancet, shows that we are gradually moving towards an obese society.
"We are in an obesity and chronic disease crisis, although it doesn't feel like it," said Boyd Swinburn, from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention and lead author of the paper. "Governments have been very slow to act [against obesity] around the world...abdicating the responsibility largely to individuals."
That means that governments are yet to take responsibility, like curtailing tv ads promoting food that increases weight, or even taxing certain exercise activities.
And to have a run down of how certain countries are seen as obese, the following are bad, and the US does not look like to have a good future.
In Japan, about one in every 20 adult women is obese, compared to one in four in Jordan, one in three in the United States and Mexico, and up to seven in 10 in Tonga.
In the United States, where health officials have termed obesity an epidemic, more than 50 percent of the adult population could be obese by 2030 if current trends continue, a team from Columbia University and Harvard University wrote in a separate paper in the series.
All of this reminds me of the movie "Wall-E", where the world has gone fat, and have to leave in spaceships.
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