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Obesity

Obesity and the Impact of a Growing Crisis

In Latin America, one in four adults lives with obesity and the region has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in the world.

Pesticides, climate change, and obesity: a detrimental connection for human and environmental health

Overweight and obesity, related to the consumption of processed foods and lack of physical activity, increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, hypertension, which are aggravated by the effects of climate change.

Two actions in One: mitigating climate change and preventing obesity

Coauthor Camila Niclis Climate change and the obesity pandemic represent two of the major global challenges of the 21st century.