Obesity on the Climb

      As of May 28th, 2014 early a third of the world has expanded its waist line. Almost 30 percent of people on earth are overweight; this rounds out to 2.1 billion people. All over the world, obesity rates have increased. In developed worlds, the obesity rate for men is higher than is for women. The opposite is true in developing countries where women’s obesity rates are higher. The obesity rate has risen nearly 50 percent since 1980. Within 1980-2013, no country has been successful in decreasing obesity rates. Notably, higher rates have been found in the Middle East and North Africa among girls.

      It’s a strange world where over 700 million people are starving while another 2.1 billion people are overweight.  There is a big gap in inequality of people around the world. The food around the world has become more calorie dense than the food of before. People are most likely to get fat when they eat as they desire. It makes sense that obesity rates are higher in areas where people cannot afford healthy foods. It will cost nearly twice as much to eat healthy than eating processed and premade frozen foods. There is a point where an individual is in control of their own health, there should be a system where it helps to curb the prices of junk food. I think junk food in the future will be the equivalent of smoking where we know it causes many diseases and the price will be higher. We are just another two thirds away from becoming a civilization similar to Wall-E, where people are everyone is obese and immobile. 

http://time.com/134206/a-third-of-the-world-is-now-obese-or-overweight/
http://www.med-health.net/Fast-Food.html