Sheesh! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4793455.stm

More overweight than hungry people...just what does that say about the world at large? If you sit down and eat a super-sized fast food combo you could potentially consume all of the necessary calories you need for a day in a single meal.
Government regulation can never replace responsible people making smart choices.

One could look at this optimistically and say that it is great that there are not as many starving people as there could be.

time for a food redistribution program from the severely overweight to the starving... Kill two birds with one stone.

Well, I don't see much optimism here. The main point of the article wasn't that hungry people numbers are necesarrily decreasing, but that overweight population is increasing.