It must also be difficult to separate the disease burden of obesity from the figures.
The WHO "Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health" says that chronic diseases like cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, stroke, cancers and respiratory diseases account for 59% of the 56.5 million disease-related deaths annually, and much of the global disease burden is tied to diet.
He said UNFCCC calculations had taken into account only half of the extra disease burden due to emerge from climate change, assumed low levels of future development in Africa (so giving less infrastructure to protect), used low estimates for sea level rise and had not included the economic costs of nature loss.
The first is the ever-more-pronounced shift in the burden of disease among the U.S. population from acute to chronic conditions.
Their data was included in the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study, which looks at the health and mortality of populations across the world.
The author of the research paper Dr Lennert Veerman, from the Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost Effectiveness, told me they had adjusted their research to exclude people who were physically active while watching TV - such as running on a treadmill or rowing.
The report says there is a lack of data on the condition, making it difficult to estimate the real burden of the disease.
And because obesity is linked to a host of health problems, from diabetes and heart disease to cancer, the burden for health systems is becoming worrying.
Annual gonorrhea screening is also recommended for sexually active women with new or multiple sex partners and women who live in communities with a high burden of the disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO) calls it a "double burden" of disease and says: "It is not uncommon to find under-nutrition and obesity existing side-by-side within the same country, the same community and the same household".
Perhaps now they can also address diabetes and cardiovascular disease, which impose an equal burden in the regions they are trying to help.
People living with HIV bear the burden of having a highly stigmatized disease and they regularly face discrimination simply on the basis of their health status.
My bottom line is that young people making major decisions about their lives, careers, and life partners have enough stress without adding the burden of potential poor self-image inflicted by a viral disease such as genital warts.
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