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50% adults overweight or obese by 2050: Global study

50% adults overweight or obese by 2050: Global study

More than half of all adults could be overweight or obese by 2050.

Learning English from the News · BBC Radio

March 5, 20257m 57s

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More than half of all adults and a third of children, teenagers and young adults around the world are predicted to be overweight or obese by 2050.

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