Globesity - become some body - the world`s unbalanced relationship to food!

The inspiration of writing this blog is from a book Fighting globesity by Phillip and Jackie Mills.
The word globesity is a blend of global with obesity and refers to the looming public health crisis worldwide caused by excessive weight gain. Maybe a strange blog in this community for peace - but anyway here it is!

“Globesity” is fast becoming more of a problem than famine and under-nutrition, and has now reached a point where it is becoming a serious threat to the health of every nation striving for economic development, scientists said yesterday.
It is the sign of over consumption in our world.

[Independent, Feb. 2002]

The Lancet’s cancer journal, Lancet Oncology ... warns that the obesity epidemic — or “globesity” as the World Health Organisation termed it recently — threatens a public health crisis.

[Guardian, Aug. 2002]

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 1.2 billion people worldwide are classified as overweight and 250 million are classified as obese. Worldwide, this is equivalent to 7 percent of the adult population.

What About the Children?

It is widely accepted that overweight or obese children have a greater risk of growing up to be overweight or obese adults. Obesity poses a major risk for serious diseases such as diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers. For this reason, many countries are looking toward prevention efforts for children,


Globesity is a term describing the relationship that currently operates between personal fitness, national health systems and global sustainability. Basic laws of economics dictate that societies must choose where they allocate their resources — the classic economists’ analogy is “guns or butter”, and we have similar choices to make regarding sustainability.

We do not, for instance, have the ability to deal with major ecological problems like global warming and prop up a health system overburdened by inactivity and poor food habits. People must learn to look after themselves, to exercise more and eat better. In the big picture, sustainability starts with our own bodies.


In Fighting Globesity a three-part blueprint for:


1. Creating a successful fitness lifestyle.


2. Eating in a way that will transform our health and that of the planet, and


3. Becoming eco-friendly in all aspects of our lives.

Fit body first; fit planet next. As the Mills say in their introduction, “While we deal with the larger ecological issues, 1)getting yourself enjoyably active, and 2) to dietary tactics for weight loss and for improving your health. It all starts in your own backyards, we can make a huge contribution to global sustainability in ways that can actually improve your life and be a lot of fun - and 3) eat more organic and healty food.

If you would like to get some free chapters of the book, go here!

This video is also telling the story!

So for 2009 to become some body - let us start to exercise!
To keep our body in balance - this is also one of the important things we all can do in our dedication to create a better world!