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Africa Faces Growing Obesity Problem

Africa, a continent usually synonymous with hunger, is falling prey to obesity. It’s a trend driven by new lifestyles and old beliefs that big is beautiful. Ask Nodo Njobo, a plump hairdressing assistant. She is coy about her weight, but like many African women, proud of her “big bum.” She says she’d like to be slimmer, but worries how her friends would react.
“Here, if you lose a lot of weight, people automatically think you have TB or AIDS. It’s not like in America and Europe where you go on a diet to lose weight,” Njobo said.

Well it isn’t like we think that the skinny ones suffer from self induced anorexia!