
Global Health
Inaction on obesity is bad for sustainable development
Without a healthy human population, none of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are achievable. It's time we recognized obesity as the public health crisis it is.
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Without a healthy human population, none of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are achievable. It's time we recognized obesity as the public health crisis it is.
More than 650 million adults and 120 million children worldwide live with obesity - and it is on the increase. Here's how to approach a global crisis with devastating social, economic and...