Obesity is the abnormal buildup of fat in the body.
In 2016, a scientific study showed that obesity affects 13% of the world’s population, that’s 650 million adults.
Between 1980 and 2016, obesity has more than doubled: so much so that it has become an epidemic!
Causes of obesity may be genetic, handed down from a parent to a child at birth.
But the main cause is the unbalance between the calories consumed and those burned.
We eat too much bad quality food: ready prepared processed dishes, pizzas, sodas,…
The fast food chain McDonald’s sells 2 billion hamburgers around the world every year; that’s 58 hamburgers per second!
In Europe, it’s the British that eat the most hamburgers.
It’s also the British that have a problem with excess weight both in children and in adults.
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