Overweight exceeds underweight among women in most developing countries.

By M. Mendez, C. Monteiro, Barry M. Popkin. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2005

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Global nutrition dynamics: the world is shifting rapidly toward a diet linked with noncommunicable diseases. (2006, background): “Even many poor countries—where underweight persists as a significant problem—had fairly high levels of overweight in rural area (9).”
Obesity and the metabolic syndrome in developing countries. (2008, neutral): “(204); originally printed elsewhere (28).”
Urbanisation and health in China (2010, background): “By 2050, China’s median age is projected to be 49·8 years, higher than the projected median ages of the global population (37·8), India (38·6), USA (44·1), Brazil (45), and the European Union (47), and slightly less than that of Japan (52·5).76,77 The proportion of the population 65 years of age and”
The global epidemic of obesity: an overview. (2007, background): “As economic development brings some characteristics of urban lifestyle to rural communities, these populations also begin to show increasing rates of obesity, particularly among women (44).”
Growing Epidemic of Coronary Heart Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2010, background): “Women are more affected than men, with the number of overweight women generally exceeding underweight women based on data from 36 developing countries [82].”
Food value chain transformations in developing countries: Selected hypotheses on nutritional implications (2013, background): “Similar to the case of modern FVCs, the ongoing market expansion of processed/packaged foods through modern-totraditional FVCs may be associated with excess weight and obesity, mirroring long-lived overnutrition trends in developed countries (Wang et al. 2002; Mendez et al. 2005).”
Technology, transport, globalization and the nutrition transition food policy (2006, positive): “As shown, far more obesity (than underweight) is found in rural and urban areas in most countries; however, underweight [in rural regions of Haiti, India, and a few subSaharan countries exceeds obesity (Mendez et al., 2005).”
Socioeconomic status and obesity in adult populations of developing countries: a review. (2004, background): “Furthermore, other research conducted by the authors of this study shows that there is a global trend towards an increase in obesity and a reduction in undernutrition and towards the situation in which obesity is superseding undernutrition both in urban and rural areas (30).”