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The statistics are chilling: One-point-six billion people around the world are overweight. Four hundred million are classified as obese. By 2015, it’s projected that 2.3 billion people will be overweight. The BBC’s Paul Bakibinga takes us from Africa to Europe to explore the escalating obesity crisis, and what can be done about it. Click here to listen to a special series on Global Obesity on our sister program, PRI’s The World. |
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Rates of obesity in the developing world are quickly approaching levels similar to those in industrialised nations. According to the World Health Organisation, there are twice as many people overweight as there are undernourished. In this documentary produced for the BBC World Service, a reporter who is himself obese explores the link between obesity and poverty. |
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The BBC’s Paul Bakibinga explores some of the ways individuals, communities and governments are trying to lower obesity rates – among children as well as adults. |
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| THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world. |
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