Rwanda: Is Obesity a Rich Man's Problem?

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A new study suggests that the worldwide obesity epidemic is lowest in Africa with Egypt being the only African country on the list of top ten countries having the biggest number of overweight people. But this is not necessarily good news as it might also mean most Africans are too hungry to grow fat.

The number of overweight people has increased to 2.1 billion as of 2013 from 857 million people in 1980 according to the University of Washington's institute for health metrics which carried out the study.

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