Over 600 billion people around the world, or nearly 1/10 adults around the world are obese. Obesity has more than doubled in size since the early 1980’s and and the global obesity epidemic is spilling over from wealthy first world nations into poorer developing nation nation.

Rich nations around the globe made large strides in helping cut down overall rates for hypertension, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Total new cases of men and women with ...