The world keeps getting fatter and no country has yet successfully managed to reduce adult rates of overweight and obesity.
Rates are levelling in a few countries – sometimes at low levels as in Japan, Korea, and Switzerland and sometimes at levels comparable to Australia, as in Hungary and England. Australia has also seen instances of flattening in trends (but at high levels) in pre-school children, but adult rates continue to rise.
Maybe it’s because healthy populations contain a higher percentage of the obese than unhealthy ones. In the US, longevity is higher than it’s ever been, and ALL diseases are showing a lower rate of onset and mortality, yet obesity rates are “epidemic” in scope.
I challenge folks to wrap their minds around this: it is NOT a paradox.