A new study shows that waistlines are widening almost everywhere
that long ago that more of the world’s people had too little to eat than ate too much. Now the scales have tipped. A study published on February 29th in the, a medical journal, shows that more than 1bn people were classified as obese in 2022, the latest year for which data are available. The researchers based their findings on the weight and height measurements of more than 220m people from roughly 190 countries.
The analysis finds higher obesity rates in low- and middle-income countries than in many high-income ones. More than 60% of adults in Polynesia and Micronesia were living with obesity in 2022—the highest rate in the world. This is likely to be a result of changing diets and a culture that puts a value on size. Tonga had the highest rate for women ; American Samoa had the highest for men .
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