Global & Disaster Medicine

Chile: During the long fight over the food law, Senator Girardi, 56, publicly assailed big food companies as “21st century pedophiles”

February 8th, 2018

NY Times

“….Until the late 1980s, malnutrition was widespread among poor Chileans, especially children. Today, three-quarters of adults are overweight or obese, according to the country’s health ministry. Officials have been particularly alarmed by childhood obesity rates that are among the world’s highest, with over half of 6-year-old children overweight or obese.

In 2016, the medical costs of obesity reached $800 million, or 2.4 percent of all health care spending, a figure that analysts say will reach nearly 4 percent in 2030…..”

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