World’s Obese Outnumber Underweight

[misskit]

There are now more obese people on the planet than there are underweight people, according to a new study.

In what they’re calling the “world’s biggest obesity study,” researchers from Imperial College London compared global body mass indices (BMI) from almost 20 million adults from 1975 to 2014.

What they found was that over that period, global obesity rates among men tripled from 3.2 percent to 10.8 percent. For women, it more than doubled, rising from 6.4 percent to 14.9 percent.

That means that there were 266 million obese men and 375 million obese women in the world in 2014, with all humans becoming 1.5 kilograms heavier each decade since 1975.

Severe obesity is also a rising concern, with researchers finding that 2.3 percent of men and 5 percent of women are severely obese, meaning they have a BMI of over 35 kilograms per square meter.

Morbid obesity, when a person’s basic activities are impaired by being overweight, affects 1 percent of men and 2 percent of women, researchers said, adding that there are now 55 million morbidly obese adults.

When looking at people who are underweight, by contrast, those rates have fallen from 14 percent to 9 percent among men and from 15 percent to 10 percent among women.

“The number of people across the globe whose weight poses a serious threat to their health is greater than ever before,” said Majid Ezzati, the senior author of the study from the School of Public Health at Imperial. “And this epidemic of severe obesity is too extensive to be tackled with medications such as blood pressure lowering drugs or diabetes treatments alone, or with a few extra bike lanes. We need coordinated global initiatives – such as looking at the price of healthy food compared to unhealthy food, or taxing high sugar and highly processed foods - to tackle this crisis.”

If the obesity trend continues, researchers said, by 2025, 18 percent of the world’s men and 21 percent of the world’s women will be obese.

The study found that China has the most obese people of any country and that the U.S. has the highest number of severely obese people.

India and Bangladesh accounted for about a quarter of the world’s underweight people.

“Our research has shown that over 40 years we have transitioned from a world in which underweight prevalence was more than double that of obesity, to one in which more people are obese than underweight,” said Ezzati. “Although it is reassuring that the number of underweight individuals has decreased over the last four decades, global obesity has reached crisis point.”

The study was published in the journal The Lancet.

World?s Obese Outnumber Underweight

[AntRobertson]

I'm slightly suspect about this because the problem is that BMI is practically useless as a measure of body composition. Using just the BMI scale I would register as 'Obese' which is absolutely ridiculous (I even remember registering as 'Morbidly Obese' once though that may have been on the Thai scale).

That being said maybe they used other metrics beyond what has been reported as well.

[harrybarracuda]

I'm slightly suspect about this because the problem is that BMI is practically useless as a measure of body composition. Using just the BMI scale I would register as 'Obese' which is absolutely ridiculous (I even remember registering as 'Morbidly Obese' once though that may have been on the Thai scale).

That being said maybe they used other metrics beyond what has been reported as well.

Why is it ridiculous that you is a fat bastard?

[AntRobertson]

Well I can probably rightly be accused of being many things but a fat bastard ain't one of them!

Twasnt so long ago that I was under 10% body fat and I still have me a set of abs.

[Iceman123]

^
You're just teasing Xanax now.

[blue]

Everytime they run a fat bastard story they always use stock photos of fat white people .
Why never show a fat yellow, brown or black porker ?

[Looper]

World’s Obese Outnumber Underweight

But when did the obese first outweigh the underweight?

That might have been in the 1980s.

If the obese now outnumber them then they must outweigh them by a factor of maybe 2 and could represent a threat.

The obese might band together and try to take over by sitting on everyone else. Maybe we should herd them into concentration camps before they grow any larger and become to big too control.

[thaimeme]

Everytime they run a fat bastard story they always use stock photos of fat white people .
Why never show a fat yellow, brown or black porker ?

You truly have to ask why?
Or just haven't figure out something that is terribly simple and straight forward.

[Neverna]

I think the "normalisation" of being fat is partly to blame. (A fifth of overweight Britons say their size is healthy https://teakdoor.com/the-teakdoor-lou...haracters.html (Britain - A country of larger than life characters))


And perhaps the "liberal" policy of not hurting the feelings of people also plays a part. (It's not OK to call people "fatty", etc)

[thaimeme]

Diet [type of food]
Eating unnecessarily.
[subliminal] Mindless consumption.
Delusions of grandeur.

[billy the kid]

Saw an old clip of hattie Jacques (spelling) co starred with sydney james
when we first saw her most would have said 'My god she is big and fat'
But looking today at her and she looks normal and everybody else has got even bigger.
Some of the arses walking through town today are enormous and they always wear tight pants to high-light it.

Very rare to see kids playing in the streets now as they're all at home sitting on their arses pressing buttons.
Parents afraid to let them be outta sight.

[AntRobertson]

^
You're just teasing Xanax now.

Thought had occurred to me already actually.

But then that filthy old underwear sniffing degenerate makes his own excuses to get excited over me.

[Bettyboo]

And perhaps the "liberal" policy of not hurting the feelings of people also plays a part. (It's not OK to call people "fatty", etc)

Are you suggesting we start a campaign? You are a fat bastard campaign? I'll try it at work tomorrow, not sure how well it'll go down, but...

[Neverna]

And perhaps the "liberal" policy of not hurting the feelings of people also plays a part. (It's not OK to call people "fatty", etc)

Are you suggesting we start a campaign? You are a fat bastard campaign? I'll try it at work tomorrow, not sure how well it'll go down, but...

I don't think it will work, Betty. The forces are against us. Even here in the "relatively-free-to-slag-off-folks" space that we call Teakdoor, the mods changed the title of my tread (posted above) from something like "Britain, a land of fat bastards" to "Britain, a country of larger than life characters"!! WTF? No, we are beyond such overt campaigns. It must be done in other ways. Think tanks need to be engaged. And Donald Trump must come to the rescue. Maybe.

[Dapper]

Everytime they run a fat bastard story they always use stock photos of fat white people .
Why never show a fat yellow, brown or black porker ?

Cos they're fucking lying, and there aren't many of 'em

[wasabi]

Everytime they run a fat bastard story they always use stock photos of fat white people .
Why never show a fat yellow, brown or black porker ?

Cos they're fucking lying, and there aren't many of 'em

Blue, they don't show those non whites in fat pics because they need them for the really skinny anorexic pics with a snot nose picture for charity aid advertisements.
They don't want you to change your way of thinking, because you would stop donating just £3 a month so that Samho gets clean water.

[Dapper]

[thaimeme]

Heh...mindboggling, ain't it.

[harrybarracuda]

Personally I just tell people it's relaxed muscle. If they don't believe me they can go and fuck themselves.