Experts Project Half The World’s Population Could Be Overweight By 2030.

so far, no one “has found a consistent way for most obesity sufferers to lose their extra weight and keep it off long-term without surgery, leaving the world with an obesity bill that costs $2 trillion a year.” Some “1.4 billion adults are overweight, and more than half of the global population could fall into that category by 2030, according to a projection by the McKinsey Global Institute.” The burgeoning obesity epidemic “wasn’t caused by a decline in global willpower, but rather the rise of sedentary lifestyles due to work and the sugar-laden western diet.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/01/01/resolving-to-lose-weight-this-year-willpower-isnt-your-biggest-obstacle/?hpid=z5