A major report has recently revealed that men in Ireland are going to be fattest in Europe within a decade. It suggested that women are also likely to carry forward and rise in the obesity league table.

By 2025, 38% men in Ireland will be obese, taking the top position in the European and the UK list of countries suffering from obesity epidemic. Europe’s second fattest are going to be women in Ireland at that stage in case they don’t bring out any change in their present lifestyle trends.

Medical journal ‘The Lancet’ has cautioned that nearly 37% of Ireland women and 38% UK women will be obese by 2025.

In the last four decades, an upsetting increase in the number of obese people has been seen around the world, going up from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014, as per the most comprehensive analysis of body mass index (BMI) trends till now.

Senior author Professor Majid Ezzati from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London, UK, said that in the last 40 years, the world has changed form a place wherein underweight prevalence was over double than that of obesity, to one where more number of people are obese than underweight.

Ezzati added, “If present trends continue, not only will the world not meet the obesity target of halting the rise in the prevalence of obesity ... by 2025, but more women will be severely obese than underweight by 2025”.

In the recent decades, Ireland has been one of the worst nations for letting its people become obese following unhealthy lifestyles.

Ireland, Cyprus and Malta men and Moldova women have the highest average BMI in Europe now. In Europe, Ireland women have the third highest average BMI, equivalent to Russia and the UK.