Friday, October 22, 2010

Obesity Is Rising Around The World: McKinsey & Co.

From McKinsey Quarterly, the business journal of McKinsey & Company, "Why governments must lead the fight against obesity" by Jeffrey Algazy, MD, MPH, Steven Gipstein, MD, Farhad Riahi, MD and Katherine Tryon, MD:
The world is getting fat. In many countries, the proportion of people at an unhealthy weight has more than doubled in the past few decades. Globally, at least 1.3 billion adults and more than 42 million children are overweight or obese.
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Source: McKinsey & Co.
Read the complete McKinsey Quarterly article here.

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