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Fat chance: The Economist's Obesity profile. The World is getting wider.

December 17, 2012

Published in News

In 1937 George Orwell suggested that “changes of diet” might be more important than “changes of dynasty or even of religion”.

Now he is being proved right in a way he might not have expected. Having spent millennia worrying about not having enough food, mankind’s main concern is now eating too much.

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