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Sixty-four per cent of American adults are presently overweight, as opposed to fortyseven per cent in 1980 |
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Obesity may soon surpass both hunger and infectious disease as the world's most pressing public-health problem |
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In parts of the developing world, slimness has supplanted plumpness as a mark of social status and sexual desirability |
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Pockets of obesity can be found in underdeveloped countries, particularly in urban areas |
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In 2000, for the first time in history, the number of overweight people in the world matched the number of underweight people |