[Obesity and overweight].

• Worldwide obesity has nearly doubled since 1980. • In 2008, more than 1.4 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight. Of these over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese. • 35% of adults aged 20 and over were overweight in 2008, and 11% were obese. • 65% of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. • 42 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2013. • Obesity is preventable.