More than a billion people worldwide are obese, research finds
theguardian.com
Over past three decades. obesity rates increased fourfold among children and doubled among adults
More than 1 billion people worldwide are now living with obesity, with rates among children increasing fourfold across a 32-year period, according to new research.
Analysis of the weight and height measurements of over 220 million people from more than 190 countries shows how body mass index (BMI) changed across the world between 1990 and 2022.
Approximately 1,500 researchers contributed to the study by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). Published in the Lancet, it found that over the period obesity rates increased fourfold among children, and doubled among adults.
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Losing weight really isn’t that hard, just eating less and limiting your calories. I’ve lost tons of weight this way
You're right. The equation to lose weight is not hard. Eat less, move more. That's simple, but it's not fucking easy.
Exactly it’s simple like quitting smoking is just don’t smoke anymore. For some people that’s enough but with obesity rates this high and having the relationships they do with plenty of other sociological phenomena we need to stop acting like it’s a moral failure and instead look to find ways that it may have been made harder and ways to make it easier.
100%. Ban fast food advertising and make all junk food have plain packaging warning labels.
Its so easy that theres a billion obese people in the world!
It's often easier to become obese though. Which is why there's like 7 billion people who are not obese
I mean, you can’t really count the billions that have trouble getting enough to eat, either.
There is like 2.3 billion who are food insecure, with 828 million of them going hungry.
https://www.who.int/news/item/06-07-2022-un-report--global-hunger-numbers-rose-to-as-many-as-828-million-in-2021
Ironically and unfortunately, there may even be some overlap between the obese and those who are food insecure.
There's hunger and nutrition. I believe that there are many foods that will satiate hunger without providing adequate nutrition.
Not to dismiss the struggles of those who literally don't have enough food, though. I would rather be missing some nutrients than have nothing at all.
Why'd you have weight to lose in the first place if it's not that hard to lose or keep off? What's "tons" mean? 100 pounds or more?
Easy in what way? It's not easy if your body craves food as a substitute for happiness, or sleep, or calm thoughts. Stress is a major factor in weight gain and it's a primal instinct, so it's hard to fight. Especially because if you're overwhelmed by lack of sleep, worry over finances, and have no time, it's hard to shop for and prepare healthful food all the time. And there may not be time for physical exercise either. "It's easy" is a hurtful thing to say when another choice would be, "let me take on some of your burden so you can take care of your health."
That's why the vast majority of people who lose weight either fail or end up regaining the weight in less then a couple years.
Seriously, you have a better chance of quitting heroin than losing significant weight and keeping it off.