PARIS: One in five adults could be obese by 2025, said a major survey Friday that warned of a looming epidemic of “severe obesity” with significant health and economic costs.
The ratio of obese adults has more than doubled in the 40 years since 1975, and will climb further in the coming nine, the research showed.
Of about five billion adults alive in 2014, 641 million were obese, it found. The figure was set to exceed 1.1 billion by 2025.
“There will be health consequences of magnitudes that we do not know,” author Majid Ezzati of Imperial College London told AFP of the research published by The Lancet medical journal.
“Obesity and especially severe and morbid obesity, affect many organs and physiological processes.
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