Obesity, a major risk factor for diabetes and other ills, targeted by study
Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 05:21
in Health & Medicine
Waistlines are expanding at such an alarming rate across the globe that, if trends hold, almost 58 percent of the world's population will be overweight or obese by 2030, according to researchers at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine...
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