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Europe's obesity crisis expands to 'enormous proportions'

Europe faces an obesity crisis of “enormous proportions” as unhealthy diets and physical inactivity inflate waistlines and health costs, the World Health Organization claimed Wednesday. Nearly all adults in Ireland — one of Europe’s fattest nations — will be overweight by 2030, the European Congress on Obesity in Prague was told. “Even in countries with a traditionally lower prevalence of obesity such as Sweden, obesity rates are predicted to rise

Europe's obesity crisis expands to 'enormous proportions'

Europe faces an obesity crisis of “enormous proportions” as unhealthy diets and physical inactivity inflate waistlines and health costs, the World Health Organization claimed Wednesday. Nearly all adults in Ireland — one of Europe’s fattest nations — will be overweight by 2030, the European Congress on Obesity in Prague was told. “Even in countries with a traditionally lower prevalence of obesity such as Sweden, obesity rates are predicted to rise