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More than four billion people could be overweight by 2050, with 1.5 billion of them obese, if the current global dietary trend towards processed foods continues, a first-of-its-kind study predicted Wednesday.

Warning of a health and environmental crisis of "mind-blowing magnitude", experts from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) said that global food demand would leap 50 percent by mid-century, pushing past Earth's capacity to sustain nature.

Food production already hoovers up three-quarters of the world's fresh water and one-third of its land -- and accounts for up to a third of greenhouse gas emissions.

Providing a long-term overview of changing global eating habits between 1965 and 2100, the researchers used an open-source model to forecast how food demand would respond to a variety of factors such as population growth, ageing, growing body masses, declining physical activity and increased food waste.

They found that "business as usual" -- a continuation of current trends -- will likely see more than four billion people, or 45 percent of the world's population, overweight by 2050.

The model predicted that 16 percent would be obese, compared with nine percent currently among the 29 percent of the population who are overweight.

"The increasing waste of food and the rising consumption of animal protein mean that the environmental impact of our agricultural system will spiral out of control," said Benjamin Bodirsky, lead author of the study published in Nature Scientific Reports.

"Whether greenhouse gasses, nitrogen pollution or deforestation: we are pushing the limits of our planet -- and exceeding them."

While trends vary between regions, the authors said that global eating habits were moving away from plant- and starch-based diets to more "affluent diets high in sugar, fat, and animal-source foods, featuring highly-processed food products".

At the same time, the study found that as a result of increasing inequality along with food waste and loss -- food that is produced but not consumed due to lack of storage or overbuying -- around half a billion people will still be undernourished by mid-century.

"There is enough food in the world -- the problem is that the poorest people on our planet have simply not the income to purchase it," said co-author Prajal Pradhan.

"And in rich countries, people don't feel the economic and environmental consequences of wasting food."

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in a special report last year that humanity will face increasingly painful trade-offs between food security and rising temperatures within decades unless emissions are curbed and unsustainable farming and deforestation are halted.

Same here...I use a tailor's measuring tape and check my belly first thing in the morning.

When I fattened up, I wanted it to be obvious to everyone, so I started wearing tighter clothes. When I bought shirts and tried them on, I would sit down in them to make sure the buttons would gap just a little bit.

I like the way clothes look and feel now that I'm fatter. When clothes are more snug, it reminds me of how fat I am now and I enjoy imagining what people must think seeing me slowly waddle by. And going to the beach is a lot more fun now

The best answer to the "should I get fat" question I've heard is how you feel after you come. You think of getting fat, you get turned on, you masturbate...if you come and still want to get fat, do it. If after you come, you don't wish you were fat, don't do it.

Getting fat isn't always the right answer simply because it turns you on. Some people would rather fantasize about it to get turned on but not want to live in an obese body 24/7, which is totally understandable.

I will say, though, that I think that a lot of people who ask "Should I get fat?" are really asking for someone to talk them into gaining.

I remember loving the scene in The Little Mermaid when Ursula turned back into her octopus form and the wedding dress ripped right off her.

Putting on my tiny bikini and hitting the beach with two or three footlong subs. There would be an area where men and women are lifting weights, doing pushups and pullups, etc., and I'd waddle into the area with all my soft fat on display and I'd sit down and devour all the food while watching them.

Filling out my bikini was one of my primary goals when I began gaining, and now that I'm properly overflowing it, I have nowhere to show off my fat.

Anyone else dying to show off their pandemic pounds and nowhere to do it?

Seeing YouTube videos of people with my ideal body is really helpful for inspiration, but more than that are the stories I read here about people who are determined to get fat no matter what.

I've fattened out of most of my clothes as well. Virtually all my T-shirts are too short for me now and all my button-downs gap at the buttons when I sit down.

I mentioned in another post that growing boobs was/is one of my major goals. I was all belly for a long time, so I knew I had to keep gaining until the rest of me got fat as well. I have a lot of sideboob now and finally I'm just starting to see a little shadow under my boobs that shows they're starting to blossom finally.

I love the thought of filling out bras and having a cup size, of bra shopping like women do.

My advice is get a bikini. Virtually nothing shows off a fat body like a teeny bikini and you'll enjoy that you fill out the top...plus, bikini tops are super comfortable. You might even prefer them to bras, especially since they have a lot of stretch to them.