Aug 9, 2007

The number of overweight people in the world overtook the number of malnourished for the first time in 2006, according to Professor Barry Popkin, director of the department of nutrition at the University of North Carolina.

The article (“Overweight couples boosting obesity epidemic: study“) appears in the August 8, 2007 issue of the Sydney Morning Herald.

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