Overweight and obesity are becoming huge public health problems worldwide. Globally, there has been an increased intake of energy-dense foods that are rich in fat and an increase in physical inactivity.
Changes in dietary and physical activity patterns are often the result of environmental and societal changes associated with development and lack of supportive policies in sectors such as health, agriculture, environment, food processing, education. According to the World Health Organization around 13% of the world’s adult population were obese in 2016.
Obesity can increase the risk for a wide range of chronic diseases such as type-2 diabetes, hypertension and coronary heart disease with a reduced quality of life. The risk for these noncommunicable diseases increases with an increase of BMI.