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A lesson from the Pacific. (Obesity).(Brief Article) New Statesman, Sept 16, 2002, by Theodore Dalrymple For most of human history, wealth I has meant health -- at least when compared with poverty. The rich of any society don't just live better than the poor, they live longer, and this was so even before there were effective medical treatments that the rich, but not the poor, could pay for. So strong has the correlation been between wealth and health that we have come to expect that increasing incomes will translate into increasing lifespans, ad infinitum. But at the British Association for the Advancement of Science last week, Professor Andrew Prentice of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine pointed out that a steadily rising proportion of our children are grossly obese. Since obesity is the harbinger of a host of illnesses, some of which reduce life expectancy considerably, it is possible that we shall see a fall rather than a rise in life expectancy.
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