My takeway from it (could be wrong) is that in absolute numbers there would be more obese people in china than say in some countries in middle east, but as a percentage of population they are small.
I knew from other other readings that in China this is due to younger generation.
"Within one generation, the percentage of Chinese children who are overweight or obese has skyrocketed from 5% to 20%. The rate has absolutely exploded, over a very limited amount of time." http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-...
There are also many skinny people who eat nothing but dorritos and are skinnyweak. They don't make the Obese charts but they are no more healthy.
The fact of the matter is that people need to own their health.
Not really. To get to obese by gaining muscle mass one would most certainly have to use certain illegal drugs.
http://www.bodybuilding.com/author/john-hansen
Which puts him at 31 BMI, so just barely in the obese category.
And this guy is clearly not your average "gym rat", he's a winner of Natural Mr. Universe, so he'll be somewhere on the very edge of the Bell curve. 99.9% gym rats will never be close in terms of lean body mass. So if they are "lumped in obese", then they truly have a lot of fat to lose.
The increase in the obesity gets even more alarming if one considers that out of ~7 Billion world population, one can take ~3 Billion people (India + China + Central Africa) out of the equation as they are affected less than others (the first infographics also supports this notion).
641M of 7B = 10%
600M of 4B = 15%
(Approx numbers just for getting some ballpark indicators)