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Article: The Stuffed and the Starving
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- The Washington Post
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- October 17, 1995
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One in three Americans is too fat. In other parts of the world,
about 100 million people are too thin.
In the United States twice as many children and adolescents are
severely overweight today compared with their counterparts in the
1960s. But elsewhere, the Bread for the World Institute in its sixth
annual report on the state of world hunger estimates that 150,000 to
250,000 people die of starvation every year -- many of them children.
Too thin. Too fat. In the United States we quip that you can't be
too thin or too rich. In Africa, where the hunger crisis is
concentrated, you are likely to be too thin and too poor.
Obesity and emaciation are opposites, yet as health hazards they
have ...