More Than 2 Billion People Are Now Either Obese Or Overweight | Co.Exist | ideas + impact: If you thought the United States was unique in its obesity crisis, you haven't been to Kuwait or Tonga recently. While the U.S. is home to 13% of the world's most overweight, many other countries are catching up fast. Obesity is no longer an exclusively first-world problem.
A major analysis of 1,769 previously published studies finds that there's been a huge tipping of the scales in the last 30 years or so. Between 1980 and 2013, the number of overweight or obese people worldwide rose from 857 million to 2.1 billion. More than 36% of men and 38% of women now have a Body Mass Index score higher than 25, the normal threshold for being overweight.
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