If you have not realized by now, we are in the midst of a global obesity epidemic. (In other news, in case you’ve been living in a cave since the 1980s, we also now have something called the Internet, people can read things on their phones and Ghostbusters is no longer in the theaters…well, maybe not everything has changed). While the worldwide numbers have clearly shown that obesity and overweight rates have risen worldwide since the decade of big hair, video arcades and Slice, there are still a number of misconceptions about the global obesity epidemic.
