Read more about The Obesity Revolution. “Soaring obesity rates.” “An alarming surge in BMI.” A closer look at the latest global obesity data tells a more nuanced story than monolithic surging.

As of 2022, more than one billion people — 43% of adults — were living with obesity across the world, according to researchers from the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, a global network of ...

a comprehensive global analysis has concluded. Overweight and obesity rates in adults, children and teens more than doubled over the past three decades, afflicting 2.1 billion adults and 493 ...

"The epidemic of adult obesity is a worldwide phenomenon, here of course, but also in Asia, Latin America and Africa, especially in urban areas," said Larry Atkinson, president of the association ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment ...

A third of children worldwide forecast to be obese or overweight by 2050 Date: March 3, 2025 Source: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Summary: Obesity rates are set to skyrocket, with one in ...

“The unprecedented global epidemic of overweight and obesity is a profound tragedy and a monumental societal failure,” Emmanuela Gakidou, one of the study’s authors and a co-founder of the ...

"The unprecedented global epidemic of overweight and obesity is a profound tragedy and a monumental societal failure," lead author Emmanuela Gakidou, from the US-based Institute for Health Metrics ...

“The unprecedented global epidemic of overweight and obesity is a profound tragedy and a monumental societal failure,” lead author Emmanuela Gakidou said in a news release. She's a professor ...

Obesity is estimated to affect more than 1 billion people worldwide. In the U.S., about 40% of adults have obesity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.