More than half of all adults and a third of children, teenagers and young adults around the world are predicted to be overweight or obese by 2050. The findings come from a new study of global data covering more than 200 countries published in The Lancet, a well-known British medical journal. The proportion of both men and women who are overweight or obese has doubled since 1990. OK, let's have our first headline. This one is from South China Morning Post and it says, 'How global obesity epidemic is set to get a whole lot worse.' And that headline again from the South China Morning Post, 'How global obesity epidemic is set to get a whole lot worse.' So, this headline says the global obesity epidemic is set to get a whole lot worse.
'Set to' means it's about to get worse. But we're looking at the phrase 'a whole lot'. Neil, what can you tell us?
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