human history, there are more obese people in the world than there are people who are malnourished.
.....Even in Africa, which is awash with areas where obtaining adequate nutrition remains a huge problem, WHO claims that there are four times as many obese people as malnourished individuals.
.....And the really sad thing, as I wrote earlier, is that obesity is hitting young kids particularly hard. Thus, in the US (it’s slightly better in Canada but Americans have long been the very fat canaries in the mine, meaning that what happens in the US inevitably happens a few years later in the rest of the world), over 30 % of all kids are now considered obese. And the worst may be yet to come since 12 % of US infants between the ages of 6 and 23 months are obese, and studies tell us that fat infants nearly always end up fat kids and even fatter adults.
.....But why, it’s entirely legitimate to ask, is obesity such a major public health problem? Because study after study after study concludes that people who pack on too many pounds are at significantly higher risk of many major |
.....“Fat chance”, was my son’s two-word sneer when I told him that I was going to do an article on obesity (how is it, I often ask myself, that sons scoff, sneer and smirk all at the same time), an article that, I had confidently added, I was certain would stimulate lots of you to get serious about doing something about your and your kids’ expanding waistlines. By the way, when he cracks stupid jokes like that one, I often tell my son that one day I’d love to check his DNA to see if he’s really mine, to which he always replies, “Well, if I’m not, man, what will you be saying to your wife, eh”, which is why I’ve never really pursued it.
.....Anyway, my son’s sarcasm aside, obesity is “big” news these days, and there’s a very good reason for that – we’re seeing soaring rates of obesity that just a few years ago no one foresaw, and they certainly didn’t predict it would happen in young people in the stunning rates that are occurring today.
.....How bad is it? So bad that some of you will not believe what you are about to read, although if you look around you, you will quickly see how true it all must be. |
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.....To start, you should understand that obesity is not a phenomenon that afflicts only affluent people living in developed nations, but rather obesity has become a world wide problem that affects every
 culture, every nation, every community. Thus, according to World Health Organization estimates, over 1 billion people – that’s nine zeroes, which is more than even Al Gore makes for each of his sanctimonious speeches - are now obese, meaning that for the first time in |
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