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Do doctors think it's fair to claim obesity is an epidemic, when people are still dying of malnutrition?
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Epidemic: Yes. Both problems exist. For obesity, it affects nearly 30% of the population and that number has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Obesity is definitely an epidemic.
Answered 4/17/2013
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