TRICK OR TREAT--AND I’M COLLECTING FOR WEIGHT WATCHERS!

Overweight people now outnumber the hungry(Nick Squires, The Telegraph, August 15th, 2006)

The number of overweight people in the world has overtaken the number of malnourished for the first time, with a billion people considered heavier than advised.

While almost one in six of the estimated world population of 6.5 billion is now overweight or obese, about 800 million people do not have enough to eat, an international conference in Australia was told yesterday.

"The reality is that globally far more obesity than under-nutrition exists," said Prof Barry Popkin, a nutritionist from the University of North Carolina.

Obviously Malthus failed to see that it isn’t the population that pushes against the food supply, it’s their waistlines.