According to a new study, one billion people worldwide are severely overweight. At the same time, more than 700 million people are hungry. Both make you sick, are dangerous and often fatal. But there is no political will to change.
Some records are really nothing to celebrate. The results of the extensive study, which has just been published in the specialist magazine Lancet published are included. Accordingly, more than a billion people on earth are now obese. One in eight people is not only slightly overweight and a bit round, which is represented by a body mass index (BMI) between 25 and 29.9, but also has a BMI greater than 30, which in German is described with the drastic word “obese”. becomes and makes you sick.