As per the World Health Organization report, obesity levels increased twofold in every region of the globe between 1980 and 2008, spurring rates of non-communicable illnesses like diabetes and cancer, which currently account for about two in three demises internationally.

In its yearly World Health Statistics, the Geneva-based WHO stated that approximately 500 million individuals are overweight.

Around 26% of adults in the United States are overweight, making it the globe’s fattest area as compared with 3% of adults in Southeast Asia, the report said.

Females are more likely to be overweight than males.

The World Health Organization is working to build up voluntary objectives for cutting tobacco and alcohol utilization and perk up diets to ward off the flood tide of illnesses that aren’t passed from person to person that a research last year said will cost the worldwide financial system $47 trillion by the next 20 years.

In a declaration, Margaret Chan, the WHO’s director general, stated, “This report is further evidence of the dramatic increase in the conditions that trigger heart disease and other chronic illnesses, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.”

Approximately one in three adults all over the globe has hypertension and one in 10 has diabetes.

As per reports, the figure of maternal demises has been contracted by 47% to 290,000 in the year 2010 as against 540,000 in 1990, and demises of kids under 5 years declined to 7.6 million in 2010 from 10 million a decade earlier.