Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much worse it could get. A team of researchers found that in 2021, one billion men and 1.

Rates of obesity and overweight are spiralling due to a "monumental societal failure" to tackle the problem, with more than half of adults and almost a third of children and young people set to be affected by 2050,

More than half of adults and a third of children and teens worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050, a comprehensive global analysis has concluded.

Obesity levels worldwide are growing relentlessly. Spain is one of the most affected countries: by 2050, children under 14 years old will rank fourth globally, and almost half will be overweight. Our lifestyle conditions what we will become in a few decades: six out of ten adults and one-third of children and adolescents will be overweight or obese by 2050.

More than three in four adults in the UK will be obese or overweight by 2050, a Lancet study has revealed. Experts predict the proportion of obese children and adults in the UK will rise substantially over the next 25 years – and the increase will be fastest among the country’s youngest.

Without urgent policy reform and action, over half the world's adult population (3.8 billion) and a third of all children and adolescents (746 million) are forecast to be living with overweight or obesity by 2050—posing an unparalleled threat of premature disease and death at local,

A major international study has found children and adolescents in Australia have experienced some of the fastest transitions to obesity in the world.

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