1 Billion People Projected to be Obese by 2025

If no action is taken, Global Obesity rate is expected to rise 10 years from now.

Along with the World Obesity Day, the World Obesity Federation reported that the world's obesity rate will increase by four percent in 2025.

According to the organization, if people's current lifestyle continues without proper action, 177 million people will be severely obese or will have a Body Mass Index of 35 above. Thus, doubling the 2010 record of severely obese individuals.

In the report, the United States is predicted to have the biggest number of severely obese people with more than 25,000 as compared to the 6,000 severely obese people in the country in 2014.

It was also pointed that roughly 2.7 billion people around the world will be overweight or obese in the aforementioned year- a 700 million increase from 2014 data of overweight and obese individuals. Among these, US, again, is expected to be the most affected with 190,000 adults expected to be in the overweight or obese category.

As cited by Medical News Today, the World Obesity Foundation released the report to reinstate to the governments the Global Action Plan set by the World Health Organization (WHO).

"The obesity epidemic has reached virtually every country worldwide, and overweight and obesity levels are set to continue to rise. Governments know the present epidemic is unsustainable and doing nothing is not an option. They have agreed to tackle obesity and to bring down obesity prevalence to 2010 levels by the year 2025. If governments hope to achieve the WHO target of keeping obesity at 2010 levels, then the time to act is now," Professor Walmir Coutinho, president of the World Obesity Federation, said via MNT.

The release by MNT also mentioned that although some governments have accepted the need to create measures to further prevent obesity, very few are actually making actions to address the epidemic.

"Governments have accepted the need for regulatory measures, such as market controls, taxes and subsidies, setting standards for catering services and investment in healthy schools - but few governments are implementing these measures," noted Dr. Tim Lobstein, director of policy at the World Obesity Federation, via MNT.

As described by WHO, being overweight and obese are linked to more deaths than being underweight in a global scale. Overweight and obesity also increase the risk of acquiring non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular (heart disease and stroke), diabetes, musculoskeletal di and some cancers like endometrial, breast, and colon cancers. The risk for these diseases increases as BMI also increase.