{"id":2032,"date":"2014-05-30T08:55:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T22:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2014-05-30T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T22:55:11","slug":"economist-daily-chart-peak-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=2032","title":{"rendered":"Economist Daily Chart: Peak Fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #4a4a4a;\">Worryingly, the study\u2014led by the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4a4a4a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.healthdata.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Washington\u2014showed that children are fattening at a faster pace than adults. Last week the World Health Organisation set up a new commission to curb child obesity. But it will be some time yet before the world reaches peak fat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/graphicdetail\/2014\/05\/daily-chart-19?fsrc=scn\/fb\/wl\/dc\/peakfat<\/p>\n<hgroup class=\"typog-content-header main-content-header\" style=\"color: #4a4a4a;\">\n<h1 class=\"fly-title\" style=\"color: #e3120b;\">Daily chart<\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"headline\">Peak fat<\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<aside class=\"floatleft light-grey\" style=\"color: #7b7b73;\"><time class=\"date-created\">May 29th 2014, 14:11<\/time>\u00a0<span class=\"location\">by J.S, C.H. and G.D.<\/span><\/aside>\n<div id=\"block-ec_components-share_inline_header\" class=\"block block-ec_components \n\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"share_inline_header\">\n<strong>The ever-expanding world<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"main-content\" style=\"color: #4a4a4a;\">\n<div class=\"content-image-full retina-595\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140531_gdc156_0-Economist-Peak-Fat.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2033\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140531_gdc156_0-Economist-Peak-Fat.png\" alt=\"20140531_gdc156_0 Economist Peak Fat\" width=\"1190\" height=\"1874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140531_gdc156_0-Economist-Peak-Fat.png 1190w, https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140531_gdc156_0-Economist-Peak-Fat-190x300.png 190w, https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140531_gdc156_0-Economist-Peak-Fat-650x1024.png 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1190px) 100vw, 1190px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>WAISTLINES are widening everywhere. The percentage of adults who are overweight or obese has swelled from 29% in 1980 to 37% in 2013, according to a new\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4a4a4a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(14)60460-8\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<em>Lancet<\/em>. People in virtually all nations got larger, with the biggest expansions seen in Africa, the Middle East and New Zealand and Australia.\u00a0The chunkiest nations overall are found in the tiny Pacific islands and Kuwait, where over three-quarters of adults are overweight and over half are obese. And the world is unlikely to slim down soon. While the rate of increase has slowed in the rich world, it is still rising in poorer countries, where two-thirds of the world\u2019s 2.1 billion overweight adults live. China is home to the largest number anywhere\u2014335m, more than the population of America. This is not just because of its sheer size, but also because economic growth led to cellulite growth: a quarter of adults are now overweight compared with one in ten in 1980.Mexicans just outweigh neighbouring Americans. In both countries, two-thirds of people could lose a pound or two, though more Americans are obese. Agreeing on how to combat the problem is tricky, given that experts continue to bicker on what, precisely, makes us fat. <strong>Worryingly, the study\u2014led by the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4a4a4a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.healthdata.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Washington\u2014showed that children are fattening at a faster pace than adults. Last week the World Health Organisation set up a new commission to curb child obesity. But it will be some time yet before the world reaches peak fat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-ec_blogs-ec_blogs_block_prev_next\" class=\"block block-ec_blogs \n\" style=\"color: #4a4a4a;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worryingly, the study\u2014led by the\u00a0Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation\u00a0at the University of Washington\u2014showed that children are fattening at a faster pace than adults. Last week the World Health Organisation set up a new commission to curb child obesity. But it will be some time yet before the world reaches peak fat. http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/graphicdetail\/2014\/05\/daily-chart-19?fsrc=scn\/fb\/wl\/dc\/peakfat Daily chart &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=2032\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Economist Daily Chart: Peak Fat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,26,9,10,13,22,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complex-adaptive-systems","category-data-saving-lives","category-facts-data-points","category-healthcare","category-healthy-habits","category-nutrition","category-policy","category-politics","category-rapid-learning-health-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}