Most Europeans are overweight and rising rates of obesity threaten to undermine the region’s reputation for having a population that’s thinner on average than Americans, a new report shows.
Turkey and the UK are among Europe’s most overweight countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday in a report. The United Nations body said it’s declaring an “obesity epidemic” after finding that 59% of adults in Europe had a high body-mass index (BMI) in 2016.
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