Obesity rates likely to double by 2030 with highest rises in lower-income countries
by Sarah Johnson from World news | The Guardian on (#5WR5A)
More than half of women in South Africa projected to have condition, with no country expected to meet WHO target of halting rise, according to World Obesity Atlas figures
More than a billion people around the world will be obese by 2030 - double the number there was in 2010, according to new global estimates.
No country is on track to meet the World Health Organization's (WHO) target to halt obesity by 2025, with one in five women and one in seven men predicted to have the condition by 2030.
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