A team of international researchers performed a comprehensive search of the available data from surveys and reports to track overweight people (body mass
index of 25kgm2 or higher) and obesity (BMI of 30kgm2 or higher) in 188
countries from 1980 to 2013.
Worldwide, there has been a startling increase in rates of obesity and the overweightedness in both adults (28 percent increase) and children (up by 47
percent) in the past 33 years. The number of overweight and obese people rose
from 857 million in 1980 to 2.1 billion in 2013.
However, the rates vary widely throughout the world, with more than half of the world's 671 million obese individuals living in just ten countries -- United
States (more than 13 percent) Texas Rangers Women's Jersey , China and India (15 percent combined), Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, Germany Toronto Blue Jays Women's Jersey , Pakistan and Indonesia. Currently, 62 percent of the world's obese people live in developing countries.
The prevalence of overweightedness and obesity in childhood has increased remarkably in developed countries, from 17 percent in 1980 to 24 percent in 2013
in boys and from 16 percent to 23 percent in girls. Similarly, in developing
countries, rates have risen from roughly 8 percent to 13 percent in both boys
and girls over the three decades.
In high-income countries, some of the highest increases in adult obesity prevalence have been in the United States Washington Nationals Women's Jersey , where roughly a third of the adult population is obese, and Australia, where 28 percent of men and 30 percent of
women are obese. A quarter of Britain's adult population is obese.
The greatest gain in overweightedness and obesity occurred globally between 1992 and 2002, mainly among people aged between 20 and 40.
Prof. Emmanuela Gakidou from the University of Washington, who led the study, warned that the study presents a worrying picture of substantial rises in
obesity rates across the world and said that concerted action is urgently needed
to reverse this trend.
WASHINGTON Discount Chicago Cubs Jersey , June 20 (Xinhua) -- A website surfaced Saturday with a racist manifesto purportedly written by the white gunman Dylann
Roof, explaining why he allegedly targeted Charleston, South Carolina, in
Wednesday's massacre that killed nine African- American churchgoers.
"I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country," read part of the
manifesto posted on the website Discount Arizona Diamondbacks Jersey , which also contained a number of photographs which appear to show Roof, the suspect in Wednesday's Charleston
African-American church carnage, holding a Confederate flag and burning a U.S.
flag.
"Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me," the 2,444-word manifesto concluded.
The creator of the website or the authenticity of the photos could not be confirmed immediately and U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was
investigating who was the author of the manifesto.
However Discount Atlanta Braves Jersey , according to the U.S. TV network NBC News, the website was registered under the name Dylann Roof, using Roof's mother's
home address.
Employing defamatory words, the manifesto is broken up into several sections outlining the writer's feelings about different races. A large proportion of the
text deals with the Afro-American communities in the United States and details a
racist ideology of white supremacy on topics such as segregation and slavery.
Calling African-Americans "subconsciously viewed" by the whites as "lower beings," the manifesto once praise segregation as a " defensive measure" against
the African-Americans.
"Not only did it protect us from having to interact with them, and from being physically harmed by them Discount Baltimore Orioles Jersey , but it protected us from being brought down to their level," said the manifesto.
Roof, a 21-year-old white man, was detained Thursday and charged with nine counts of murder for the mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist
Episcopal Church Wednesday night.
Authorities said Roof spent nearly an hour in Bible study with other 12 black parishioners at the renowned African-American church before opening fires at
them.
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WASHINGTON, June 19 (Xinhua) -- With 18 months left in office and a hostile Congress fully controlled by Republicans who don't budge on sabotaging his
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that rampant gun violence only happens in the United States.
"I don't need to be constraint about the emotions that tragedies like this raise," said Obama in his first speech after the shooting spree at the Emanuel
African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. "To say our
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