In New Zealand, obesity can be a barrier to visa applications. A woman from South Africa was once denied a visa by New Zealand's immigration authorities due to her weight. The officer cited her high BMI and overweight status as posing a significant health risk, which would place considerable strain on New Zealand's government-funded healthcare system. But she eventually received permission to settle after successfully losing weight.

　　India: Yoga for All to Combat Obesity

　　Prime Minister Modi has personally promoted the yoga movement, using the nationwide yoga craze to actively address the increasingly serious problem of obesity. Modi can be described as the “Chief Marketing Officer“ of yoga. In 2024, it was his active advocacy that led the United Nations to designate June 21st as the International Day of Yoga.

　　From “gold temptation“ to “waistline legislation,“ in this global protracted battle concerning human health, China has also demonstrated localized solutions. Shandong Province has innovatively launched the “One Evaluation (health assessment), Two Controls (tobacco control and alcohol control), Three Reductions (salt reduction, oil reduction, and sugar reduction), Four Healthy Goals (healthy mind, healthy weight, healthy mouth, and healthy bones)“ public health lifestyle campaign, which includes a variety of activities for popularizing and intervening in healthy weight management knowledge. The province has cumulatively conducted over 9,000 such activities, with a total participation of 995,000 people and a coverage of 7.912 million people.