Deadly Condition Spreads

The Economist, Aug 18th 2006 (subscription only; sorry):

OBESITY is no longer a problem for the rich world alone. The World Food Programme estimates that 3m people in southern Africa will remain short of food this year because of grinding poverty and the world’s highest rates of AIDS. Yet a rising number of people in the same region, especially women, also risk damaging their health because of another form of malnourishment: they are overweight or even obese.

Bob Malthus was wrong, wrong, wrong.