Obesity: The World is 17 Million Tons Overweight

Obesity measured on the world's scale sure sounds worse when the population's weight is estimated in the millions of tons.

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine published a report this week that estimates the world's population is overweight by 17 billion tons (34 billion pounds), MSNBC reports.

The U.S. makes up just 5 percent of the world's population but represents about a third of the world's weight because of America's obesity epidemic, according to MSNBC.

In South Pasadena, 28.3 percent of children are estimated to be obese or overweight,