Timeline: Now for the next decade
This is already a massive problem, and there are lots of campaigns to reduce obesity, but the problem just keeps getting worse.
If you don't believe me, just have a look at this scary data from "ground zero" of the epidemic, the United States: http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html
Here are some predictions from better-educated sources than myself: http://www.heartforum.org.uk/Publications_NHFreports_ObesityTrends.aspx
Notice that the correlation between extra weight and many diseases has been established for decades now.
Obesity is spreading around the world like a plague.
No wonder. With cheap, fatty, salty, sugary food being shoved in our faces from all angles, it is getting more and more difficult to eat properly.
The only way to stop this trend is to change the economics. Instead of promoting junk food, we need to make healthy food cheaper, and unhealthy food more expensive.
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