Almost 3 billion people are living with overweight or obesity.
By 2035, that could reach 4 billion - nearly half the world.
This affects all of us. The time to act is now.
👉 https://t.co/sRaCjG5hA9
#WorldObesityDay ⭕ #8BillionReasons
Protocol paper published 🎉
Key insights:
🔎 Comparing access to unhealthy & healthy diets across remote, regional, and urban food outlets
🤝 Importance of working alongside #EndingTrachoma, Indigenous environmental and community health workers, government and academic
Obesity isn’t about personal choices - it’s about systems. And in #LMICs, those systems are stacked against the poorest.
🌍 88% of future childhood obesity will occur in LMICs.
We need urgent, equitable action.
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#4BillionReasons
📅 Save The Date
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By 2035, 750 million children could be living with overweight or obesity - increasing early risk of NCDs for 2 in 5 children worldwide.
Protecting children means transforming food systems.
#WorldChildrensDay#ForHalfOfHumanity
88% of children with overweight and obesity will live in LMICs by 2035.
Childhood obesity is a global equity issue - and today’s food systems are failing the poorest children most.
We need action, not blame.
#WorldChildrensDay#4BillionReasons
A third of Australian households are going hungry despite millions of tonnes of food going to landfill each year says #foodbank report: https://t.co/ukM1hcJrdX @ChristinaPolla8
🍼 Manufacturers have kept profit margins of 50 to 75 per cent on infant formula, compared with less than 5 per cent on most groceries
https://t.co/VnCeNHamY4
Deeply corrugated roads leading to some of Australia's most remote communities are restricting people from visiting families, preventing access to fresh food & health services: https://t.co/wEEclDynwG @PHAIWA@foodinremotes@RuralHealthWes1@ChristinaPolla8@DrMelStoneham
❗️ Obesity is now one of the top 10 global risk factors for CVD deaths.
The latest #WorldHeartReport 2025 from @worldheartfed, calls for national strategies, stigma-free care, and integrated treatment.
📘 Full report: https://t.co/xudSjnqDwY
📰Our news: https://t.co/qII0z2EDRa
Innovation in women’s health must be led by women.
We need to redefine what innovation means and who drives it, writes Ebere Okereke
https://t.co/ao6tOi3zeZ
Media release: 🚨
With Asia and the Pacific on the front lines of the climate crisis, @WHO unveils an ambitious blueprint for action on climate and health.
https://t.co/mxu19THhvA
5 WA remote stores — Warakurna Store, Yakanarra Store, Bayulu Supermarket, Parnngurr Store & Wangkatjungka Store to receive Food Security Resilience funds to reduce food costs in isolated areas impacted by extreme weather & limited infrastructure: https://t.co/ZgJZPwGYbC @PHAIWA
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Reducing #FoodLoss & #FoodWaste means more than simply saving food, it means protecting the health of our planet 🌍 & so much more.
Here are 5 benefits of reducing food loss 👇