There’s no sugarcoating the facts. The number of people getting obese and overweight all over the world is growing steadily year after year. The World Health Organization reports that the worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly doubled between 1980 and 2008.
Ten per cent of men and 14% of women in the world were obese in 2008 as compared to the 5% for men and 8% for women in 1980. By 2008, an estimated 205 million men and 297 million women over the age of 20 were obese.
That’s almost more than half a billion people worldwide.
