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One in 8 adults now obese: global survey
Published Fri, Apr 1, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Paris
MORE than one in eight adults are obese - a ratio that has more than doubled since 1975 and will swell to one in five by 2025, a major survey reported on Friday.
Of about five billion adults alive in 2014, 641 million were obese, the data showed, and it projected that the number will balloon past 1.1 billion in just nine years.
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