More people in the world are now dying from obesity than malnutrition, anti-poverty campaigners say.

[Metro – UK – Sept 22, 11] There were 1.5billion dangerously overweight people worldwide last year, while 925million were underfed, according to the Red Cross.

The figures were denounced as a ‘shocking’ demonstration that the world produces enough food but people still go hungry.

The Red Cross called it a ‘double-edged’ scandal that fewer people died of starvation than were being killed by ‘excess nutrition’.

The organisation’s Bekele Geleta said: ‘If the free interplay of market forces has produced an outcome where 15 per cent of humanity are hungry while 20 per cent are overweight, something has gone wrong somewhere.’ Continue lendo →