Overnutrition (obesity) Outnumbers Malnutrition

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I thought there were 8 billion.

Maybe the malnourished die?

Just picking on the comparison of 2 independent things.

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[ ] Overnutrition (obesity) Outnumbers Malnutrition

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4793455.stm

[Guest guest]

> I thought there were 8 billion.

> Maybe the malnourished die?

> Just picking on the comparison of 2 independent

> things.

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/840

Worldwatch Paper #150: Underfed and Overfed: The

Global Epidemic of Malnutrition

March 2000

Gardner and Halweil

ISBN: 1-878071-52-1

68 pages

For the first time in human history, the number of

overweight people rivals the number of underweight

people, according to a forthcoming report from the

Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, DC-based research

organization. While the world's underfed population

has declined slightly since 1980 to 1.1 billion, the

number of overweight people has surged to 1.1 billion.

Both the overweight and the underweight suffer from

malnutrition, a deficiency or excess in a person's

intake of nutrients and other dietary elements needed

for healthy living. " The hungry and the overweight

share high levels of sickness and disability,

shortened life expectancies, and lower levels of

productivity-each of which is a drag on a country's

development, " said Gardner, co-author with

Halweil of Underfed and Overfed: The Global Epidemic

of Malnutrition.