Chapter 9: Malnutrition's new frontier: The challenge of obesity [Nourishing Millions]

OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY prevalence has increased substantially over the past decades, affecting 2.1 billion people worldwide and causing 3.4 million deaths globally.1 Currently, 42 million children are overweight or obese—the result of a staggering 47.1 percent rise in prevalence between 1980 and 201...

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Main Authors:	Hodge, Judith, Verstraeten, Roosmarijn, Ochoa-Avilés, Angélica
Format:	Ponencia
Language:	Inglés
Published:	2016
Subjects:	health nutrition poverty developing countries countries sanitation malnutrition education
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/133294