In the early 1980s and 1990s, obesity was considered a potential global problem, a global problem of a magnitude that led WHO in the end of 1990s to declare obesity a global pandemic.
A principios de los años 80 y 90, la obesidad era considerada como un potencial problema global, un problema de tal magnitud que, a finales de los años noventa, la OMS la declaró pandemia global.