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More Than 1 Billion People Now Have Obesity

A new study from The Lancet shows that in 2022, more than 1 billion people around the world were living with obesity. Since 1990, obesity has more than doubled in adults and has quadrupled in children and teenagers between the ages of 5 and 19. The study also found that 43 of adults were overweight.
At the same time, undernutrition, which means n...