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.
Tell that to life insurance providers, who will charge them far more.
And that’s just an extreme example. There are plenty of people out there that measure “obese” by BMI, but you would question if they are overweight.
I think we’re so used to seeing fat people that our perception of who really counts as obese is skewed.
This. I’m euro heritage with a BMI ~29. When I stand amongst my family I look average, when I stand with my Chinese mates I look overweight, when I’m with my pacific islander friends I look slim. The idea that all overweight/obese (by BMI) people are unhealthy is absurd.