Although obesity is well known and currently an important target for public health efforts in the United States, it has always been of much less of a concern for people in developing countries in development. That is, until recent efforts to address the growing problem caught the attention of many global health stakeholders. Thirty years ago the main focus was on child malnutrition and how to feed the world's rapidly growing population, while medical services in developing countries focused on fighting infectious diseases. (Caballero, 2005) Today the World Health Organization (WHO) finds itself having to face the new pandemic of obesity and the non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that accompany it. While the problem of child malnutrition is far from gone, rates of tuberculosis and malaria are rising and AIDS has become a bigger problem than ever. This has created a “double burden” of disease that threatens to overwhelm health services in many poor and developing countries. (Prentice, 2006) WHO warns that the burden of obesity, combined with any of the conditions mentioned above, will have a serious and negative impact on populations in developing countries. The obesity pandemic originated in the United States and has spread to Europe and other wealthy countries around the world. nations and has now reached even the poorest countries in the world. Indeed, the pandemic is believed to be transmitted through the vectors of subsidized agriculture and multinational corporations that provide low-cost, highly refined fats, oils and carbohydrates, affordable motorized transportation, labor-saving mechanized devices, and the seductions of sedentary pastimes. like television. (Prentice, 2006) The pandemic will continue to spread for the foreseeable future, unless educational campaigns... middle of paper... worldwide? Temporal trends among women in 39 low- and middle-income countries (1991–2008). International Journal of Obesity, 36(1), 1114-1120. Martorell, R., Khan, L., Hughes, M., & Grummer-Strawn, L. (2000). Obesity in women from developing countries. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, (54), 247-252.Misra, A. and Khurana, L. (2008). Obesity and metabolic syndrome in developing countries. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 93(11), Popkin, B. (2004). The nutritional transition in developing countries. Development Policy Review, 21(5-6), 581-597. Popkin, B., Adair, L., & Wen Ng, S. (2012). Global nutrition transition and the obesity pandemic in developing countries. Nutrtition Reveiws, 70(1), 3-21.Prentice, A. (2006). The emerging obesity epidemic in developing countries. International Journal of Epidemiology, 35(1), 93-99.