2007-01-20 14:37:20 · 7 answers · asked by Mem 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
More people are overweight.
2007-01-20 14:40:58 · answer #1 · answered by aSchway 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Underweight" and "overweight" according to whose standards? Every culture has different stands of what is acceptable and what is not. Most people in the world are underweight according to American norms, but most Americans are overweight if you go by the averages for other countries.
2007-01-20 22:41:27 · answer #2 · answered by gmug9 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In less developed countries, more people are underweight. In developed countries, like the US, Canada, and many European countries, the numbers of overweight people are much higher. Even in Asian countries where a Western diet is becoming more common, more people are overweight.
But for the entire planet? They probably balance out.
2007-01-20 22:40:50 · answer #3 · answered by Emmy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Western countries the diseases related to obesity and over-nutrition are at epidemic levels. By 2010 Type 2 Diabetes and related problems of this disease will be the biggest killer in the Western world out weighing (pardon the pun) heart disease.
Third world countries are suffering from diseases relating to under-nutrition such as malnutrition.
Both of these extremes are simple metabolic abuses that in most cases can be easily rectified.
2007-01-20 22:50:15 · answer #4 · answered by tantalite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Overweight. I read an article about it recently.
2007-01-20 22:40:24 · answer #5 · answered by Tiki™ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think that probably obesity is more prevalent in the US and Europe. Other countries don' t have fast food or enough food for that matter.
2007-01-20 22:43:42 · answer #6 · answered by Absynthe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmm.
there is alot of poor people and sick people.
so my geuss there are moor underweight.
2007-01-20 22:41:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋