System outcomes of the current food system
Obesity and chronic disease In 2005, there were 1?6 billion overweight people over 15 years of age and a further 400 million people who were obese, according to global estimates, with projections that there will be 2?3 billion overweight people and 700 million obese by 2015
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. Recent figures show that nearly three-quarters of the adult population in the USA is classified as being above the healthy weight range
.In Australia, between 1995 and 2007/8, there was growth in the proportion of people who were overweight or obese