Thread: Obese Outnumber Starving People Globally

The world now has more overweight people than hungry ones and governments should design economic strategies to influence national diets, a conference of international experts have heard.

The transition from a starving world to an obese one had happened with dramatic speed, US professor Barry Popkin told the annual conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists on Monday.

“The reality is that globally far more obesity than undernutrition exists,” Popkin said, adding that while hunger was slowly declining, obesity was rapidly spreading.

There are more than a billion overweight people in the world and 800 million who are undernourished, he said at the Gold Coast convention centre near Brisbane. The world population is estimated at about 6.5 billion.



SHOWS HOW FUCKED UP THIS WORLD IS THAT WE LIVE IN

If you think about it that's not really true. How do you think they got obese...