Sunday, September 03, 2006

The Pie is Falling! The Pie is Falling!

It seems Chicken Little has been fattened for the pot and is singing another tune. Does this mean we've beaten world hunger?

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- The world is in the grip of an obesity pandemic that threatens to overwhelm every country's health system with ailments such as diabetes and heart disease and shorten the life span of future generations, experts at an international conference warned on Sunday. "Obesity is an international scourge," Prof. Paul Zimmet, the chairman of the meeting of more than 2,500 experts and health officials, told delegates in a speech opening the International Congress on Obesity. "This insidious, creeping pandemic of obesity is now engulfing the entire world." "It's as big a threat as global warming and bird flu," said Zimmet, an Australian diabetes expert.

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