African countries have largely failed to address a rising obesity epidemic that could soon become the greater public health crisis, experts said as new data was released.
African countries have largely failed to address a rising obesity epidemic that could soon become the greater public health crisis, experts said as new data was released.
According to the Global Nutrition Report published, a quarter of the world's 41 million overweight children under five live in Africa, a figure that has nearly doubled on the continent in the last two decades.
The report said there are still six times more children on the continent whose growth is stunted from malnutrition, and that number is also increasing.
The WHO said noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, most of which are obesity-related, are expected to become the biggest killer in Africa by 2030.
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