Egypt's Rising Epidemic

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Egypt has one of the world's highest obesity rates — nearly 44% of adults are clinically obese. In a crowd of 2,000 Egyptians, roughly 886 are obese — higher even than the United States. The causes are complex: heavily subsidized bread and sugar, rapid urbanization eliminating physical activity, and cultural norms that once equated larger body size with health and prosperity. Egypt's obesity crisis is largely invisible in international discourse because it doesn't fit the expected geography of the epidemic.