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Governments and doctors now generally agree that policy intervention is necessary to address the epidemic.

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The article opens with statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO). Since 1975, global obesity has nearly tripled. In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight, and over 650 million were obese. The "expanding waistline" is no longer a rich-country problem; it has spread to low- and middle-income nations.