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More People Than Ever Overweight, Obese In Developed Countries, OECD Report Says
"More people in developed countries are overweight or obese than ever before, dooming them to years of ill health, pushing up health care costs and piling more pressure on health systems, a report [.pdf] by the OECD found on Tuesday," Reuters reports. Though the report found that obesity rates are diverse -- "from a low of four percent in Japan and Korea to 30 percent or more in the United States and Mexico" - "in more than half of the 34 OECD countries, at least one in two people is now overweight or obese, and rates are projected to rise further," according to the news agency.
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