Obesity and Corporate Greed, A Worldwide Health Challenge, 'Globesity': DW Documentary

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- DW/Deutsche Welle, a German public broadcast service, 2022.

- Description (YouTube). Doctors predict that by 2030, half of the world's population will be overweight or obese. An epidemic of obesity is causing a rapid rise in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. It's becoming the biggest health challenge worldwide.

Why has no country managed to stop this epidemic? The food industry and government authorities say it's due to a lack of individual self-discipline. Is this true? Or is it the result of collective failure - a symptom of a liberal society that abhors obesity, yet produces people who are overweight. Is society itself to blame for the situation?

Around the world, politicians, priests, doctors, and average people are standing up to multinational food corporations. They want to take back control of their nutrition and their bodies - and they're using the law, scientific evidence and political activism to correct the claim that people who are obese have only themselves to blame... To Read More click on the YouTube logo in the video and look for Description.

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1. More from DW, 40% of the global population is overweight

or obese. Highly processed industry foodstuffs are largely to blame. But food companies continue to focus on products that are addictive. Sugar is one of the strongest 'drugs' and can get consumers really addicted..

- Junk Food, Sugar and Additives - The Dark Side of the Food Industry. DW/Deutsche Welle, 2023.