Bermuda counts cost of overweight population
Jun 17, 2013
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin says 70 per cent of Bermuda's adult population is overweight or obese and the island is counting the cost of additional strains being put on a struggling economy.
Gordon-Pamplin, who has just returned from a meeting of health ministers in Aruba on the impact of childhood obesity, said that Bermuda’s population will face chronic health issues from preventable, non-communicable diseases.
“The proportion of children who are overweight or obese has been growing,” she told legislators."
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