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Shape up: Malaysia should eye India’s obesity surgery trend
Despite the fact that one in six Indians are classified as undernourished, bariatric surgery – also known as stomach shrinking – has begun to...
Sarawak’s widening problem with obesity
Sarawak, unfortunately, is part of the obesity rise in Malaysia, an epidemic that can have drastic economic implications on a country’s social sector, namely upped healthcare expenditures, as well as a drop in work productivity.
Malaysians most obese in Southeast Asia
The recent measure of the New York City Board of Health to ban the sale of large sugary soft drinks has turned the attention...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...