Fat hedgehogs

Someone told me the other day that the point has been reached where the overweight people in the world now outnumber the starving. Is that possible? I think, if the Fife SPCA is putting hedgehogs on a diet - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7196379/Chubby-hedgehogs-sent-to-fat-club-to-diet.html - then probably anything is.