The relative rate of people being underweight is actually decreasing while the rate of people who are overweight/obese is increasing
From 2016 (and it's worth noting that everyone has become richer since then):
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/health-35933691.amp
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Great link. I'd recommend you read the article.
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"For instance, unless we make healthy food options like fresh fruits and vegetables affordable for everyone and increase the price of unhealthy processed foods, the situation is unlikely to change." (Lead author Prof Majid Ezzat)
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"Prof George Davey Smith from the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol writes in the same journal of the danger of becoming "a fatter, healthier, but more unequal world. "A focus on obesity at the expense of recognition of the substantial remaining burden of under-nutrition threatens to divert resources away from disorders that affect the poor to those that are more likely to affect the wealthier in low income countries," he said."
From 2016 (and it's worth noting that everyone has become richer since then):
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/health-35933691.amp
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"For instance, unless we make healthy food options like fresh fruits and vegetables affordable for everyone and increase the price of unhealthy processed foods, the situation is unlikely to change." (Lead author Prof Majid Ezzat)
.
"Prof George Davey Smith from the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol writes in the same journal of the danger of becoming "a fatter, healthier, but more unequal world. "A focus on obesity at the expense of recognition of the substantial remaining burden of under-nutrition threatens to divert resources away from disorders that affect the poor to those that are more likely to affect the wealthier in low income countries," he said."