Obesity now affects more than a billion people worldwide, including children and adolescents. Since 1990, the obesity rate has almost tripled among men (from 4.8% in 1990 to 14% in 2022) In 2022 this disease affected nearly 160 million children and.
adolescents (94 million boys and 65 million girls). Some 30 years earlier, there were 31 million. The WHO calls for “cooperation from the private sector, which must be responsible for the impact of its products”.