How to grow your profits as the world’s waistline expands

The world is getting fat, putting added strain on our health and environment - and investors can’t afford to ignore the issue. James McKeigue and Inigo Kelsey explain how you can profit.

"If every country becomes as fat as the US, then in mass terms it's like having an extra billion people on the earth or feeding another half a billion." That's what Professor Ian Roberts, who led a study on obesity for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told The Daily Telegraph earlier this year.

With obesity already the fifth-biggest cause of death in the world, that it has a serious environmental impact too simply serves to emphasise how much of a problem unhealthy eating has become. It's one that politicians have realised they can't ignore as obesity imposes ever-increasing costs on healthcare systems. It's an issue that investors can't afford to ignore either.

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James McKeigue

James graduated from Keele University with a BA (Hons) in English literature and history, and has a certificate in journalism from the NCTJ. James has worked as a freelance journalist in various Latin American countries.He also had a spell at ITV, as welll as wring for Television Business International and covering the European equity markets for the Forbes.com London bureau. James has travelled extensively in emerging markets, reporting for international energy magazines such as Oil and Gas Investor, and institutional publications such as the Commonwealth Business Environment Report. He is currently the managing editor of LatAm INVESTOR, the UK's only Latin American finance magazine.