Sep 14, 2006
Global overweight now outnumber global malnourished
There are more "overweight" people than undernourished people on Earth, according to last Sunday's opening keynote at the Congress on Obesity in Sydney, Australia: Zimmet, an expert on diabetes at Monash University in Australia, said that overweight people now outnumber the undernourished. The World Health Organization's estimates agree: globally, there are one billion overweight adults, and 300 million of them are obese; in contrast, about 800 million do not have enough to eat. Today obesity is a problem mainly in rich countries, but the WHO estimates that by 2010 the developing world will have more than caught up. Link