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Acknowledgement:
Abstract adapted from The Healthy Ageing Adult South Africa report card: a systematic review of the evidence between 2013 and 2020 for middle-aged South African men and women by Micklesfield et al., 2022.
Obesity rates are rapidly increasing in the African Region, as in most parts of the world.
There is a common misconception that obesity and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) only occur among the wealthy.
Strategy for the prevention and control of Obesity in South Africa - 2015 - 2020
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