By Ted Torres (The Philippine Star) | Updated October 20, 2014 - 12:00am
Photo by FBellonMANILA, Philippines - While the world is focusing on global hunger and malnutrition, another ugly “monster†has emerged.
Obesity, a new form of malnutrition, has surfaced as an urgent challenge affecting several countries.
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Philippines and India are among the developing countries with high levels of obesity and under-nutrition.
Obesity as a form of malnutrition often coexists with under-nutrition and results from shifts from local and traditional diets to foods that are increasingly heavy in salt, sugar and fat or processed foods.
The shift to a steady diet of processed food is due to the increasing cost of nutritious and natural food, the FAO said.
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