Obesity:

 

The Absolute Reality and warning sign .

India, with 41 million obese people, ranks third after the US and China in having the highest number of overweight people in the world, says a study.Together, India and China represent 15 percent of the world's obese population. Although the prevalence of obesity has increased over the course of the 33-year study in India, only 3.7 percent men and 4.2 percent women were obese in 2013. In the last 33 years, no country has successfully reduced obesity rates.
 

"In the last three decades, not one country has achieved success in reducing obesity rates, and we expect obesity to rise steadily as incomes rise in low and middle income countries in particular, unless urgent steps are taken to address this public health crisis," said Christopher Murray, director of IHME and a co-founder of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study in a statement.
 

With obesity now affecting 1 in 4 adults and 1 in 5 children, it is edging ever closer to becoming an epidemic and it is largely down to our unhealthy western lifestyle. Our lives are filled with processed foods, sedentary jobs and a lack of exercise.