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Obesity
Overweight and obesity are major risk factors for a number of chronic
diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Once
considered a problem only in high income countries, overweight and
obesity are now dramatically on the rise in low- and middle-income
countries, particularly in urban settings.
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Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity
Tasked with producing a report specifying which approaches and which
combinations of interventions are likely to be most effective in different
contexts around the world
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