OBESITY: Does emigration affect the prevalence of obesity?

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- January 8, 2022 at 8:23 pm #9759
  
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  Although data from Africa are scant, a clear and distinct secular trend of profoundly increased BMIs is observed when people from Africa emigrate to the northwestern regions of the world. Comparisons of these indices among Nigerians and Ghanaians residing in their native countries with indices in recent immigrants to the United States show this trend poignantly.
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