Obesity growing (ahem) faster than starvation
Obesity is edging up on malnutrition as a global health epidemic.For instance, in Rarotonga, capital of the Cook Islands, 14 percent of men and 44 percent of women were obese in 1966. Now, 52 percent of men and 57 percent of women there are obese.Link DiscussLavelle surveyed weight in South Africa and rural Australia three years ago and found more signs of an emerging weight problem.
In Cape Town, 12 percent of girls and 16 percent of boys were considered overweight. In much poorer rural Klein Karoo 300 kilometers to the west, just 1 percent of boys and 2 percent of girls weighed this much.
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