Costa Rica is facing a growing obesity crisis, with two-thirds of adults overweight or obese. A longtime expat reflects on ...

Global Peripheral Artery Disease Market is valued at approximately USD 4.5 billion in 2023 and is anticipated to grow with a healthy growth rate of more than 7.7% over the forecast period 2024-2032.

Undernutrition impairs child growth and brain development, while obesity can led to type 2 diabetes, cancer and heart disease. According to the World Health Organisation, obesity is an epidemic ...

June 4 (UPI) -- Latin America is facing an escalating education crisis as school dropout rates continue to climb, affecting not only the region's poorest countries but also those with historically ...

The World Bank’s study follows analysis by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which recently estimated the average direct price of crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean was 3.5 ...

Q. The latest World Obesity Federation’s 2025 Atlas projects a 115 per cent increase in obesity rates between 2010 and 2030. What are the key drivers of this alarming trend?

The World Obesity Federation has pushed for food labelling and taxation and health system improvements. But so far, the group said, very few countries are taking what it calls a “whole-of ...

Global Obesity Crisis It is estimated that up to 1.9 billion people worldwide will be living with obesity in 2035. Childhood obesity is expected to increase by 100% between 2020 and 2035. About 1 ...

Hunger increased 6 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2016, a region with 42.5 million people suffering from malnutrition, while overweight and obesity also continued to grow, the United ...

Obesity is an epidemic in the America. Four in 10 U.S. adults fit the medical definition of having obesity, which puts them at risk for serious health problems, including diabetes, heart disease ...

Live it Up Adult obesity and changing habits in America Line chart showing that the U.S. obesity rate on the rise since the 1980s. More than two in five adults were considered obese, while nearly ...

Obesity is no longer just a rich-world problem. Childhood rates are highest on the islands of the Pacific and the Caribbean, and rising fastest in developing countries such as Cambodia and Lesotho.