THE world is getting fatter and it’s not just rich westerners who are at risk. A global epidemic of fast food and increasingly sedentary lifestyles is taking its toll on poorer countries too. A staggering 1 billion of the world’s 6.45 billion people are now overweight, warns the World ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ Organization, and if the trend continues the figure will rise to 1.5 billion by 2015.
“The sheer magnitude of the overweight and obesity problem is staggering,” says Catherine Le Galès-Camus of the WHO. The rise in obesity in many low and middle income countries will create an overwhelming burden of chronic disease if nothing is done,…
