Citations:globesity

Noun: "the worldwide obesity epidemic"

 * 2003 — James Cary, "Weight watching", ThirdWay, November 2003:
 * Globesity is something genuinely new. Human development has, for the most part, been the story of people trying to avoid starvation.
 * 2004 — Alexandra Kazaks & Judith S. Stern, "Diet, Physical Activity, and Behavior", in Pharmacotherapy of Obesity: Options and Alternatives (edited by Karl G. Hofbauer, Ulrich Keller, & Olivier Boss), Taylor & Francis (2005), ISBN 0415303214, page 428:
 * The dramatic increase in "globesity" is linked to market globalization that now allows greater access to high-fat, high-sugar, energy-dense foods.
 * 2005 — Don Kulick & Anne Meneley, "Introduction", in Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession (edited by Don Kulick & Anne Meneley), Penguin (2005), ISBN 9781585423866, page 4:
 * Globesity is tied to the fact that more and more people are moving to cities, eating ever-increasing quantities of high-fat, calorie-dense junk food, and living sedentary lives.
 * 2006 — Jerome H. Barkow, Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists, Oxford University Press (2006), ISBN 9780195130027, page 34:
 * Let us begin with a simple example: the evolutionary analysis of "globesity," the obesity pandemic.
 * 2007 — Ian Cook, "Environment, health and sustainability in twenty-first-century China", in China's Post-Reform Economy — Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth, Routledge (2007), ISBN 0203933311, page 37:
 * Such sponsorship will 'exacerbate' China's growing obesity problem and contribute to 'globesity' — the worldwide epidemic of obesity.
 * 2010 — Sander L. Gilman, Obesity: The Biography, Oxford University Press (2010), ISBN 9780199557974, page xiv:
 * What is labeled as globesity is, in fact, the most recent version of an obsession with bodily control in society and the promise of universal health through all forms of medicine.
 * 2010 — Claudia Kalb, "Culture of Corpulence", Newsweek, 13 March 2010:
 * "Globesity" has consumed much of the planet, with more than 1 billion adults overweight or obese.