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The World Is Fat

By The Daily Dish

Dec 1 2008, 2:52 AM ET

Saletan reviews Barry Popkin's new book:

If you're like me, you grew up worrying about people starving in other countries. Your mom would tell you things like, "Eat your food. There are kids going hungry tonight." But hunger, as a global threat, is now dwarfed by overweight. According to Popkin, the population of obese and overweight people worldwide1.6 billionis now twice as large as the population of malnourished people.



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