EFFECTIVE, POPULAR OBESITY medications won't be enough to solve a worldwide problem that now affects more than 1 billion people, World Health Organization officials warned.
Obesity has quadrupled among children and teens and more than doubled among adults since 1990, with about one in every eight people in the world living with the condition, the health agency said on Thursday in the first global public analysis of the condition since 2017.
While rates of obesity have leveled off in some wealthy particularly in countries Europe the research team found rapid increases in low and middle-income countries.
The problem of low weight due to malnourishment has been replaced by obesity as a leading issue in many nations, the team said in a study published in The Lancet.
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