The latest analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 shows there has been a startling increase in rates of obesity and overweight worldwide—in both adults (28% increase) and children (up by 47%) in the past 33 years. The number of overweight and obese people has increased from 857 million in 1980 to 2·1 billion in 2013. In a Comment, Klim McPherson calls for a political solution stating that policy needs to solve the problem of rising obesity.
According to the comprehensive global study of the problem, Ireland's population has overweight and obesity levels in excess of the European average, .
The research, details of which are published in the journal The Lancet today, shows 26.5% of Irish girls and 16% of Irish boys under the age of 20 are classed as overweight or obese.
These figures compare to a western European average of 24.2%.
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