Mar 27th, 2024
2 mins
A new World Health Organisation (WHO) study has shown that in 2022, 1 in 8 people globally are now living with obesity.
The study, entitled ‘Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022’ highlighted that worldwide obesity among adults has more than doubled since 1990 and 43% of adults were overweight in 2022. Even more worrying is the revelation that obesity and has quadrupled among children and adolescents (5 to 19 years of age).
The study also shows that even though the rates of undernutrition have dropped, it is still a public health challenge in many places, particularly in South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Undernutrition is responsible for half of the deaths of children under 5 and obesity can cause noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and some cancers.
You can read the study in the Lancet here
