Obesity now affects more than a billion people worldwide, including children and adolescents. Between 1990 and 2022, the rate of obesity in the population quadrupled.
This “epidemic’ has progressed “more quickly than anticipated”, says the WHO. The WHO calls for “cooperation from the private sector, which must be responsible for the impact of its products on health’s impact” on children and adults. “In the past, we tended to consider obesity as a problem of rich countries, now it is a global problem,” remarks Francesco Branca.