Global energy imbalances and related obesity levels are rapidly increasing. The world is
rapidly shifting from a dietary period in which the higher-income countries are dominated by
patterns of degenerative diseases (whereas the lower-and middle-income countries are
dominated by receding famine) to one in which the world is increasingly being dominated by
degenerative diseases. This article documents the high levels of overweight and obesity
found across higher-and lower-income countries and the global shift of this burden toward …