As per ca-pita incomes in developed countries have grown over the past 3 decades, over nutrition leading to obesity and elevated health risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, some form of cancer has occurred. Higher labor force participation rates, largely associated with rising numbers of working woman, and higher child dependency ratio lead to a higher rate of obesity related mortality in developed countries. Further reductions in the price of food in developed countries can be expected to have net negative impacts on health as reflected in a higher mortality rate due to diseases that are linked to obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and most form of cancer.
In 2010, around 43 million children under five were over weight. Once considered a high income country problem, over weight and obesity are now on the rise in low and middle income countries, particularly in urban settings. Close to the 35 million over weight children are living in developing countries and 8 million in developed countries.
Over weight and obesity are linked more death worldwide than underweight. For example, 65 % of the world's populations live in countries where overweight and obesity kill more people than underweight. Projections are alarming 2.3 billion adults overweight or obese and 7 hundred million obese by 2015.
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