More women in world overweight than underfed

More women around the world are overweight than underfed, even in poor countries and rural areas, a report has found. As The Australian http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au reports, the study found that 32 per cent of urban women in 36 countries were overweight compared to 9 per cent of rural women who were underweight. "The prevalence of overweight among young women in the developing world has reached an alarming state," wrote the US and Brazilian researchers in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.