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Obese outnumber the hungry [1]

20% People Globally Are Fat: Study

New Delhi: There are more overweight or obese people, 904 million adults, in the developing countries than the developed world, about 557 million. Similarly, more than 30 million overweight children live in the developing world compared to just 10 million in the developed countries. Over one out of every five persons in the world is obese. The number of obese people is close to being double the estimated number of persons going hungry to bed, over 800 million.

Publication Date: 
17/01/2014
Rema Nagarajan [2]
Times Of India (New Delhi) [3]
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India [4], United States Of America (US) [5], Obesity [6], Children [7], WHO [8], FAO [9], Developing Countries [10], Population [11], Saudi Arabia [12], Diabetes [13], Nutrition [14], Health Effects [15], Health [16]
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