A third of the world's population is obese or overweight and an increasing number of people are dying from related health problems, posing a public health crisis of global proportions, according to a new study.
About four million people died in 2015 from cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and other diseases related to being overweight.
More than 2,2 billion people were overweight in 2015, which is 30 percent of the world's population.
Nearly 108 million children and more than 600 million adults are registered as obese with a body mass index (BMI) above 30, according to a study that covered 195 countries.
More than 60 percent of deaths are in this group, according to a study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
If the BMI result is greater than 25, it is overweight, more than 30 is described as obesity, and more than 40 as morbidly obese.
According to data from the World Health Organization, obesity has doubled since 1980 and is reaching epidemic proportions, reports klix.ba.
Obesity rates among children are rising faster than among adults in many countries, including Algeria, Turkey and Jordan.
Meanwhile, nearly 800 million people, including 300 million children, go to bed hungry every night.
Poor nutrition and an inactive lifestyle are the main culprits for the growing number of obese people.
"People are increasingly consuming processed foods that contain high levels of sugar and fat, and are engaging in less physical activity," said Boitsepo Bibi Gijoze, senior nutrition official at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
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