Posted on:
September 23, 2011
By:
Dr. Patrick Withrow, Western Baptist Hospital
It looks like the whole world is getting bigger, at least around the waistline.
The World Health Organization’s obesity center reports an estimated 1.46 billion overweight people worldwide, with 502 million considered obese. Obesity is even sweeping into low- and middle-income countries, which means unhealthy weight gain is now a problem alongside malnutrition.