05:07 PM
hmmm - wellll!
Global overweight now outnumber global malnourished: "Cory Doctorow:
There are more 'overweight' people than undernourished people on Earth, according to last Sunday's opening keynote at the Congress on Obesity in Sydney, Australia:
Zimmet, an expert on diabetes at Monash University in Australia, said that overweight people now outnumber the undernourished. The World Health Organization's estimates agree: globally, there are one billion overweight adults, and 300 million of them are obese; in contrast, about 800 million do not have enough to eat. Today obesity is a problem mainly in rich countries, but the WHO estimates that by 2010 the developing world will have more than caught up.
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(Thanks, Blake!)
(Via Boing Boing.)
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