According to the article, "the number of overweight children worldwide will increase significantly by the end of the decade, and scientists expect profound impacts on everything from public health care to economies."
The study indicates that, if present trends continue, about half of North and South America's kids will be will be overweight by 2010 and about two fifths of Europe's kids will be in the same boat
""We have truly a global epidemic, which appears to be affecting most countries in the world," said Dr. Philip James, chairman of the International Obesity Task Force and author of an editorial in the journal warning of the trend."
As societies become more affluent, one of the biggest challenges that they face is how to control the tendency for obesity to proliferate. Trends toward obesity in modern society partially roll back the huge benefits of surgical and pharma breakthroughs over the past century
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