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Despite many people wrongly connecting obesity with a rich lifestyle, surveys in the United States have shown that poor people have a much higher rate of obesity than the rich.
Source: Obesity Facts & Figures – EASO, Image: YouTube
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However, in developing and poor countries, obesity is more common among the highly educated and wealthy.
Source: Obesity Facts & Figures – EASO, Image: Wikipedia
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New Zealand denies people residency visas if they are overweight. There have been recorded cases of people rejected because they were obese.
Source: Obesity Facts & Figures – EASO, Image: Wikipedia
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In case you are one of those who still believe that obesity can’t kill, think again. Being overweight or obese is the fifth-leading risk of global deaths as of 2015. At least 2.8 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese.
Source: Obesity Facts & Figures – EASO, Image: Wikipedia
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It took the modern world many decades of debate to come to the conclusion that we should consider obesity a disease, but in ancient Greece and Egypt obesity was seen as a severe medical disorder.
Source: Obesity Facts & Figures – EASO, Image: Wikipedia
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