PARIS: More than one billion people around the world are now suffering from obesity with the number having more than quadrupled since 1990, according to a study released by the Lancet medical journal.
By: AFPMore than one billion people around the world are now suffering from obesity with the number having more than quadrupled since 1990, according to a study released by the Lancet medical journal. ― Istock.com picMore than one billion people around the world are now suffering from obesity with the number having more than quadrupled since 1990, according to a study released by the Lancet medical journal.
Francesco Branca, director of nutrition for health at the WHO, said the rise past one billion people has come “much earlier than we have anticipated”.While doctors knew obesity numbers were rising fast, the symbolic figure had previously been expected in 2030. Some 159 million children and adolescents were living with obesity in 2022, according to the study, up from about 31 million in 1990.
“These countries now have higher obesity rates than many high-income industrialised countries, especially those in Europe,” the study said. But he said that in most countries there are more people suffering from obesity than being under-weight, which the study said had fallen since 1990.