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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (47438)	3/16/2004 9:23:40 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Population <<mal-nourished today>>?? Obesity is the problem. Ray, Lula Brazil's president got elected promising "Hunger Zero" Brazil is the fifht worse obesity problem in the world.!!! <<Countries such as South Africa and Egypt already have rates of obesity that rival the West's. And the percentage of the population that becomes obese each year in developing countries is worryingly high. In Western Europe and America, 0.5% of people become overweight each year. In China, between 1989 and 1997, the corresponding rate was 1%, as it was in Brazil between 1974 and 1996. In Mexico, between 1988 and 1999, women swelled the ranks of the overweight at the rate of 2.5% a year, as did Korean men between 1995 and 1998.>> The American Association for the Advancement of Science The fat of the lands Feb 21st 2002 \| BOSTON From The Economist print edition Obesity is no longer just a western disease. It is becoming a problem in the developing world too economist.com Any report of famine is about political-induced famine such as Ethiopia or other African countries.

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