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"For example, North America has six per cent of the world population but 34 per cent of biomass due to obesity, while Asia has 61 per cent of the world population but just 13 per cent of biomass due to obesity."

""Our scenarios suggest that global trends of increasing body mass will have important resource implications and that unchecked, increasing BMI could have the same implications for world energy requirements as an extra 473 million people," the researchers wrote.

"Tackling population fatness may be critical to world food security and ecological sustainability," they added. "

Obesity an environmental problem: Study | Zee News