Morning Briefing

In this Bloomberg Businessweek opinion piece, Charles Kenny, a fellow at the Center for Global Development and the New America Foundation, examines the global obesity epidemic, writing, "It may seem strange to be worried about too much food when the United Nations suggests that, as the planet's population continues to expand, about one billion people may still be undernourished," but "[g]rowing obesity in poorer countries is a sign of a historic global tipping point." He continues, "After millennia when the biggest food-related threat to humanity was the risk of having too little, the 21st century is one where the fear is having too much."