Africa: Overfed and Underfed - Global Food Extremes

[IPS] New York -Global food extremes of chronic undernourishment and obesity have brought about a bipolar world of hundreds of millions of underfed and overfed people. Of the world's population of 7.5 billion the proportions suffering from chronic undernourishment and those afflicted by obesity are similar, approximately 11 percent or together about 1.6 billion people. However, as with most global averages, the levels of both chronic undernourishment and obesity vary enormously among regions and across and within countrie
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news