Weight loss fast and for good? Get a bypass—it beats the band, a study shows: More than one billion of the world’s seven billion people are overweight and at least 300 million are clinically obese.
Having reached epidemic proportions globally, obesity is a major contributor to the global burden of chronic disease and disability, the World Health Organization says.
In the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, Australasia and China, obesity rates have risen three-fold or more since 1980, fueled by soaring consumption of more high-calorie, nutrient-poor, sugary and fatty foods, combined with reduced physical activity.
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