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UN: Global Hunger Stable, But Obesity on Rise

Margaret Besheer

   UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations says more than 820 million people
   around the world are hungry, while at same time, obesity is hitting
   record levels.

   A [1]report released Monday by five U.N. agencies dealing with food,
   nutrition and health says that while hunger levels have mostly
   stabilized, more people around the world are anxious about where their
   family's next meal will come from.

   "People that feel insecure insecure because they are in areas under
   conflict, insecure because they are in countries with high levels of
   inflation, insecure because they are very low paid that they will not
   have money to buy their food --this number reached 2 billion people
   around the world," José Graziano da Silva, director-general of the
   Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said at the report's launch.
   "This is really a big, big number. We were surprised when we found this
   figure."

References

   1. http://www.fao.org/state-of-food-security-nutrition/en/

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