Canada

• One out of every two adults in Ontario is overweight or obese.
• In 2000, 25% of boys and 15% of girls aged 12-18 years were overweight or obese.
• One in four teenage girls in Ontario have one of three main eating disorders.
• As many as 80% of girls in grade 4 have been on a diet.
• Between 1981 and 1996, the number of obese children in Canada between the ages of seven and 13 tripled.
• Between the ages of 5 and 12, 44% of girls were considered active but, in adolescence, only 30% were active. In boys ages 5-12, 53% were active, compared to 40% in adolescence.
• One in three Canadians is trying to loose weight.
• Hearth disease is the cause of death for more Canadians than any other disease out there.

United States

• About 196 million people in the United States (or 64% of adults) are overweight or obese.
• Approximately one in every 12 people in the US is living with heart disease right now.
• One recent New York study showed that one in four kids in the city's Head Start program was obese by the age of two, and 40% of the Head Start kids were either obese or overweight.
• 27 million American children between nine and 14 have high cholesterol.
• Nearly one in three California middle school students in overweight or at the risk of obesity…one in four children in Silicon Valley is overweight or at risk of obesity.

The World

• Current obesity levels range from below 5% in China, Japan and certain African nations, to over 75% in urban Samoa. But even in relatively low prevalence countries like China, rates are almost 20% in some cities.
• One in five 11 to 12 years olds in Scotland is obese and nearly two thirds of adults are overweight.
  1 in 4 kids aged 4-10 in Chile, Peru, and Mexico are overweight.
• More than a third of 12-year-olds were overweight in the 2004/05 school year, while 19.4% were obese and 11.2% were classed as severely obese in the UK.
• Obesity currently costs the [National Health Service] up to one billion pounds a year, and one in eight children is obese, in England (BBC News).