According to a scientific study published in the ‘Lancet’ magazine, 20 percent of adults will be obese by the year 2025. The publication says that 40 year ago the underweight adults were double those of obese, a trend that has changed rapidly. The article underlines that the possibility of achieving the UN goals to limit the pace of growing obesity is close to zero. ‘The world has changed over the past 40 years. Once the underweight were double the obese. Today the opposite is true’, said a professor from the UK’s public health of the Imperial London College. The study indicates that the English-speaking world is facing the greatest problem, with the UK predicted to have the highest percentage of obese people by 2025 (38%). One fifth of obese people live in five English-speaking countries of the US, Australia, the UK, Canada and Ireland.