Like her friends from Mexico to Chile, the girl from Ipanema is getting too big for her britches. Latin America has fallen prey to the “globesity” trend, adding to the ranks of the one billion people the World Health Organization (WHO) says are overweight around the world. Globalization, with its accompanying sedentary lifestyles and proliferation of fast-food conglomerates, is a major… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesObesity and starvation now side by side in the third world. A physiological mirror of the images of high rises and shanytowns only a few miles apart.
Posted by al-Dakari on Mar 21, 2006 at 3:53 AM Give me convenience or give me death (I borrow from the Dead Kennedys).
Looks like you can have both.
As for the distraction of conflicting “expert” opinions, shouldn’t rapid weight gain as the result of making treat-food your staple diet and spending hours every day sitting on your ass (esp. obsessed with TV and/or PC) be enough of a wake-up call?
Symbols of new affluence: all the rich-kid diseases replacing the maladies of deprivation. Super-size me!
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