Obesity alert: Nearly 70% of US adults meet new definition of obesity, study finds

In a world that often indulges in binge-watching content on OTT platforms while gorging on quick-made fast food, obesity becomes the obvious consequence. As per the World Health Organization (WHO), obesity is widely considered a global epidemic and it is not limited to high-income countries; it's a growing problem in low- and middle-income nations as well. What’s more concerning is the UNICEF report. According to a landmark UNICEF report, for the first time in history, more children and teens around the world are facing obesity than struggling with being underweight. Now, a newly published study has revealed that nearly 70% adults in the United States would now be classified as obese under a revised definition of obesity — a sharp jump from the roughly 43% under the old body mass index