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Originally posted on June 5, 2014.
An amazingly comprehensive new Lancet study, with nearly 150 authors, tracks overweight and obesity rates across 188 countries from 1980 to 2013. Some highlights:
The study is amazing not only in its global comprehensiveness, across time, but also in its public, interactive data archive available from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
As a screen shot example, I compared the U.S. increase in the overweight percentage (upper dark line) with the global increase (lower dark line). All other countries are in light blue.
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