ADVERTISEMENT People are significantly more likely to be overweight or obese compared with three decades ago – and the growing crisis poses an “unparalleled threat” to health and wellbeing, new research suggests. By 2050, 60 per cent of adults and 31 per cent of children and young people worldwide are expected to be overweight or obese, representing 3.8 billion adults and 746 million youths, according to the pair of studies published in The Lancet medical journal . That’s up from 731 million