ACCORDING to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there’s a growing health trend among industrialised and developing countries that is fast unfolding as a potential health crisis. It’s called globesity, a term, coined by WHO, that combines the words global and obesity.
In just five years, the number of obese persons worldwide swelled to a staggering 300 million from 200 million people in 1995. And the problem of obesity is not just confined to industrialised nations – an estimated 115 million individuals in developing countries also suffer from obesity-related diseases.
