This crisis is not just a pressing social and health issue, but an economic one, too. The global
economic impact from obesity is roughly $2.0 trillion, or 2.8% of global GDP – roughly equivalent to
the global impact from smoking or armed violence, war, and terrorism, according to new research by
the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI 2014) (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. Obesity is one of the top three social burdens generated by human beings