FAT WORLD
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It was not that long ago that more of the world’s people had too little to eat than ate too much. What on earth happened?
Now the scales have tipped. A study published on February 29th in the Lancet, a medical journal, shows that more than 1bn people were classified as obese in 2022, the latest year for which data are available.